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As someone who's tried to work with scientists in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them. They don't do Node.js, Coffeescript, Scala or Clo
by johnsndu 14y ago
As someone who's tried to work with scientists in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them.
They don't do Node.js, Coffeescript, Scala or Clojure. They do 1950's FORTRAN, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else.
I got in trouble for being an elitist by suggesting we used Ruby for something. Ha!
- kylemaxwell 14y agoDo you really need to categorize and dismiss all scientists that way? It certainly doesn't jive with my experiences, which only means that there's variance in the population.
- ninjin 14y agoPah, the people I know in bio-informatics use Haskell, I do research on language and use Python, C and Coffeescript. Honestly, science is more diverse than high-performance simulations of the universe...
- gcr 14y agoWhat "scientists" are you talking about? In my group, we use Python and Numpy almost exclusively. Some of us have been pushing for Haskell. Let's flip your statement around a little: "As someone who's tried to work with web designers in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them. They do 1990s HTML 1.0 and flash, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else."