--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > "When you look around a physics conference now, you see more Macs > than anything else," says Cox. "I think that's because they're > essentially UNIX, and that makes it very easy for everybody who's used > UNIX in particle physics for the past 20 or 30 years. There's a huge > code base. We're still using programs written in Fortran quite a lot > programs that were written in the '70s and '80sand they compile > directly on the Mac. It's very easy to do, as opposed to Windows, > where it's just a pain to compile all the old legacy programs." > > http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/?sr=hotnews
Not really related...just two quotes about computing I stumbled across today, by two of the inventors of computing: "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language
