I am a physicist-turned-computational-scientist
turned-computer-programmer. Along the way I found that there is no substitute for clear thinking. Computer simulations generally add to the confusion, because they provide new facts. This makes the demand for clarity even greater. As for 'computer scientists', I agree totally that few of them seem to understand real science. Often they don't even understand computers. They do, however, understand the funding process and the proposal cycle.
Me, I got myself a fountain pen, a large supply of ink containers, a bunch of notebooks, and a fair amount of quiet thinking time. The last was the hardest to find. I may not win a Nobel prize but at least I am no longer confused.
This is the only comment that makes sense in this whole discussion. Without a compiler you are just daydreaming. In my book, the guys that make compilers happen sit way up there by Rockefeller, Christopher Columbus and a few others that got things done by misleading a little, coaxing and cajoling a little, and basically put their money where their mouth was.
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I am a physicist-turned-computational-scientist turned-computer-programmer. Along the way I found that there is no substitute for clear thinking. Computer simulations generally add to the confusion, because they provide new facts. This makes the demand for clarity even greater. As for 'computer scientists', I agree totally that few of them seem to understand real science. Often they don't even understand computers. They do, however, understand the funding process and the proposal cycle. Me, I got myself a fountain pen, a large supply of ink containers, a bunch of notebooks, and a fair amount of quiet thinking time. The last was the hardest to find. I may not win a Nobel prize but at least I am no longer confused.
This is the only comment that makes sense in this whole discussion. Without a compiler you are just daydreaming. In my book, the guys that make compilers happen sit way up there by Rockefeller, Christopher Columbus and a few others that got things done by misleading a little, coaxing and cajoling a little, and basically put their money where their mouth was.