On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
They use Linux/Unix because "somebody told them so", they program in
Fortran, Cobol, Algol or Modula, because "somebody told them so", they
do something "this way" because they don't know better and don't
"want
to know better".
That's a bit of oversimplification. In general scientists do coding
just fine but don't want to do more nor even think about it (no
packaging, no thoughts on system administration...). However there
are IT people working together with scientists who do system
administration well.
Still the needs are specific and very different from other environments.
--
Pat