> (I myself am not a fluent programmer — I have some experience of Haskell and Python and I think a pretty good feel for how to specify an algorithm in a way th

> (I myself am not a fluent programmer — I have some experience of Haskell and Python and I think a pretty good feel for how to specify an algorithm in a way that makes it implementable by somebody who is a quick coder, and in my collaborations so far have relied on my collaborators to do the coding.) Aw, this sets off the alarm bells for me. My immediate reaction is that this guy has no clue what he is getting into, apart from his "domain experience" (ie. top level mathematician). Run for the hills, I say.