On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:55 PM, John Kubie wrote:
One aspect of scientific programming is that it is rarely done with a commercial product in mind. More frequently, programs are written to get a job done. In this sense, users may be more inclined to share what they've written. Also, scientific software written in RB may lack the interface elegance and user protection of commercial applications, but, in my experience, the GUIs written in RB are miles ahead of other scientific programs. And the user interface can be a real productivity boon.
I wrote an RB program at work to replace one done by a physicist (I'm a chemist) at work in Fortran precisely because of the UI... It bugged the heck out of me! ;)
It integrates with a LabView program that controls a custom instrument (Don't get me started about doing programming in LabView - I had to modify and add some functionality that part too and it was NOT fun!)
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