Re: How we train numerical programmers

[Gerard Jungman <jungman at lanl dot gov>]

Eleftherios Gkioulekas wrote:
> 
> The problem is that desperately needed innovations in software
> do not count as "research" in our community. Papers with stupid
> plots that you can not confirm without contacting their author
> to see the code, do. We treat software like a LAB, a "tool". That's the
> source of all evil.

That is the most intelligent statement I have
seen yet on this list. Needless to say, I have
been telling people this for years...

I am touched by the thought that, scattered out there is a
small handful of people like you, who understand the truth,
each left wondering if they are truly alone in a mindless
universe of inane plot-makers.

We should all band together, like the
Fantastic Four and the X-Men, and stuff
all the plot-makers down a black hole, never
to return to our spacetime continuum.


--
G. Jungman