Re:Scientists should learn to program
by lsb on Sunday November 25, 2007 @02:16PM
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As far as I've seen, most scientists work with R for statistics and TeX for papers; it sounds like this reduces to "Scientists should learn powerful tools.".
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I agree, and in fact that's generally the attitude I see. Tools I've seen used: Matlab, Python, Visual Basic, Java, C++. Often scientists seem as eager to play with programming as programmers are eager to play with (or at least read and talk about) research.