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> I am myself not surprised by all this. There has always been a mental rift
> between physicists and computer scientists. Niklaus Wirth might be an
> exception, because he is an electrical enginner by training. So he knows.
> But computer scientists are just not getting it. (And then they are
> babbling about marketing that does not work ;-).
>
That's an interesting point. I am also a hybrid as I graduated with a major
in Physics, but have always worked in my professional life as a computer
scientist. That possibly explains why Niklaus Wirth's point of view has
always seemed so intuitive. Whatever he says always make perfect sense to
me.
I have often had a suspicion that the approach to problem solving that I
learnt during my formal education has given me an advantage over colleagues
that have had a tertiary education focused on computing science. Maybe we
need more hybrid courses. Note: I do not mean double-degrees - something
like Computer Science for Physicists. You could also have an identical
course called Physics for Computer Scientists so as not to put anybody's
nose out of joint.
I have been closely following the progress of Oberon for the last 14 years.
Unfortunately, the look and feel of BlackBox applications and the output
from other Oberon development tools have been considered too far from the
mainstream for our primary market - the general public. However, now that
the Component Pascal language is available as a plug-in component to the
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET development environment I am really excited
about the possibility of using my preferred language for real-world
development.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
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