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Good point, I hadn't considered that. But isn't the source code a part of the methodology used? As in, if someone doesn't review the source code, then he's skip
by stingraycharles 14y ago
Good point, I hadn't considered that. But isn't the source code a part of the methodology used? As in, if someone doesn't review the source code, then he's skipping a certain part of the methodology?
- fusiongyro 14y agoYes, logically that's true. Unfortunately, in the past programming wasn't particularly respected—remember Admiral Hopper discovered bugs—prior to that everyone had apparently assumed their programs would just be a small matter of coding or something. The scientists I know continue to regard a program as this necessary inconvenience, I suppose in part because the math is the reality. So yes, I agree, but there's going to need to be some education and cultural change before we get there, and I think fields that have embraced a computational subfield have a big head start.