I've been spending a bit of time playing with the questions at Project Euler<http://www.projecteuler.net/>, which has been fun for practising optimizing code and functional programming. The bit that (may be) relevant to you is that after each problem is solved you get access to the forum for that problem. That's where you will find lots of code and discussions about all sorts of mathematical (and non-mathematical) programming languages, most of which I had never heard of. If find it pretty interesting but, as always, YMMV.
(Sorry, I just love saying YMMV). Cheers Dave On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:30 PM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Nick Wienholt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I spent my whole masters degree (numerical modelling of the effects of > beach > > dewatering in a micro-tidal environment) doing this type of stuff, and > then > > my first two years out of uni doing the same thing (98 and 99) (1- and > 2-D > > numerical modelling to allow the GIS overlay of the effects of various > flood > > plain drainage systems to financial asses cost versus damage prevention). > > > > Because of the DotCom boom, it was about three times more rewarding to do > > junk software like CRUD screens in ADO and DAO instead of the really > > complex, intellectually meaningful development. I still think there is a > > doubling of salary to do enterprise software over engineering software, > and > > the economic drivers are hard to ignore long-term. > > > > Doing fun, interesting software with tools like Matlab just isn't as > > financially well rewarded, and hence tends to be the domain of the > hobbyist > > and academic from what I've seen. > > I'd do a lot of things differently if all I wanted was money :P :) > > Cheers for the links guys. > > > > Nick > > -- > silky > > Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature. >
