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Stand-alone scientific code
- imurray 15y agoJohn gives good motivation. Usually one should just use a featureful environment/library that provides this stuff. However, as he says, you sometimes want simple standalone functions. Motivations include simple distribution, or encouraging people to try things out when they don't have time or energy to learn a new environment [1]. [1] example from my experience, http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/it/code/ http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/it/code/
- kylemaxwell 15y agoBig fan of John Cook -- his blog (and Twitter feed) are full of useful and interesting stuff along these lines.
- swah 15y agohttp://twitter.com/johndcook http://twitter.com/johndcook http://www.johndcook.com/blog http://www.johndcook.com/blog