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Re: Linux Question [message #42637 is a reply to message #42567]

Wed, 16 February 2005 20:22

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> I feel that someone needs to stand up here and offer a valiant defense
> of the astrophysics community, but I fear it's too late and we've
> all already been irrevocably branded as hopeless luddites. :-)

> but I hope you don't fault me for wanting to get the most
> science done in IDL as possible with the minimum amount of screwing
> around with configuration parameters or learning language esoterica!
> (Same reason why I, and nearly every other astronomer I know, have
> switched to Macs as much as possible: minimal need to screw around for
> hours just to get things working!)

I work in the space sciences community, so I know exactly what you're
talking about. A number of my scientists use Macs for the reason you
mention. It seems the younger scientists (ones young enough to have
grown up with computers around) are much easier to teach and much more
accepting of instruction. They actually want to know a little of how to
do their own IDL magic. Many of our young scientists use IDL and know
some things better than I do, not that I have any great expansive IDL
knowledge. The older scientists (ones who were already through a lot
before the personal computer became the norm) fall in the "hopeless
luddites" category. It'd take a miracle for them to upgrade from
FORTRAN 77 to FORTRAN 90. At least since they're so senior they don't
bug me too much -- they have their postdocs bug me. :-)

-Mike

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