Le 12 nov. 2008 à 23:41, Richard Gaskin a écrit (excerpts):
for pure science, probably not. But for getting work done in Rev, maybe.
One not-so-marginal problem is the criticism of pernickery* referees when you (try to) publish your results. They DO want pure science, and usually ask how you did obtain your random numbers !
What is the application in question?
The application I'm developping presently is a general-purpose analyse program of ecological data mostly designed for students training (but it should be useful for "serious" work too). I don't want a good RNG for THIS application only, it's to be used as a library for several applications, mostly simulations in population biology and population genetics, but also research of solutions of systems of equations by processes like simulated annealing. And I suppose you will be glad to hear that I find Revolution excellent to built such simulations, and decently fast even without using externals. One quality of Revolution is the ease to produce (among other things) a visual and animated view of the progress of the simulation (progressive spreading and diversification of genes across a geographic area with variable climatic conditions, for instance). As a teacher, I like that, among plenty of other qualities of Rev. As a researcher, I like also the possibility to easy built quick-and-dirty, but efficient, programs to solve problems when you meet them. And as an emeritus (hum,hum) professor, I want to use some of the time suddently available to replace my quick-and-dirty programs by well presented and well structured applications. Made with Revolution, of course !
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