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Thank goodness someone said it. I get tired of using ancient software that's older than me for relatively simply tasks that should have long ago been coded into a higher level of abstraction. I programmed a pair-correlation function calculation routine using MPI once -- yech. Fortran, MPI, even C to an extent -- can we please move on? I don't understand why the scientific community is so reluctant to embrace change. It seriously doesn't take that long to learn a new language or a platform like Github (yeah, that's still considered "new" in the scientific community), and the time investment more than pays itself back many times over.

Posted by Xcelerate on Apr 8, 2015, 9:01 AM

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Thank goodness someone said it.

XcelerateApr 8, 2015, 9:01 AM

Thank goodness someone said it. I get tired of using ancient software that's older than me for relatively simply tasks that should have long ago been coded into a higher level of abstraction. I programmed a pair-correlation function calculation routine using MPI once -- yech. Fortran, MPI, even C to an extent -- can we please move on? I don't understand why the scientific community is so reluctant to embrace change. It seriously doesn't take that long to learn a new language or a platform like Github (yeah, that's still considered "new" in the scientific community), and the time investment more than pays itself back many times over.

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