This discussion of letting scientists program reminds me of something that really impressed me about an earlier generation of folks at, I think, CERN. They had, for those days, a big real-time processing problem to process detector data, and they couldn't afford commercial computers to do it, so they built their own racks full of limited 360 clones to do the job. The programming AND the iron was completely incidental to their true goals.
They regarded computers and programming as means, rather than ends in themselves, yet were not afraid to step outside their box anymore than a woodworker is afraid to build a jig or grind a chisel to achieve her ends. -- -Larry / Sector IX _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
