Most fMRI analyses are now done with SPM. This system uses scripts in Matlab and very few C routines. Matlab scripts are about as far from programminmg as you can get. The attitude that "serious" programming is done only with procedural languages is just a sentiment expressed by people who have beat their heads against the wall of badly designed programming systems who now realize that object-oriented scripting systems do the same job without the bloody mess on the wall.
Mike Williams http://www.brainmetric.com In a message dated 11/9/02 11:56:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:26:33 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Oliver Hardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Building "serious" scientific applications with RunRev... Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i do not agree with the general statement "if you want to program a serious scientific app, you better learn C". from my experience that is true only for some problems. for example, if you would like to analyze fMRI data with an algorithm of your own, well, you'll better learn C. and sometimes you need structures (struct in C, record in pascal) in order to model more complex data, then C or pascal is the better choice (for example if you want to do some complex modelling). but RR can be used successfully for scientific applications -- i am an experimental psychologist and use it nearly everyday: i prepare my data for later analysis (clean up files, merge data, rearrange files), create my experiments, manage some databases. it probably isn't the best tool to do 3d live rendering, but about that i am not sure. on the other hand, perhaps the stuff i do is not considered "serious" science ... best, olli. >> _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
