Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:29:35AM +0000, Sam Halliday wrote: > > varicad is a joke for serious work... speak to an expert, and they > > will tell you the same thing. even autocad is described as "too > > simplistic" by a few mechanical engineers i know, and architects > > (REAL architects, not "extension to the back room" architects) need > > something a lot more powerful. > This reminds me of those who have finished several semesters of > calculus, some DE and so forth, but without a calculator are > clueless. I thought real engineers would need only a pen and a piece > of paper (may be some table to speed computations). Before computers > came, with all the software, there were already engineers out there.
and there were mathematicians before maple as well :-) but it definitely speeds things up... pen and paper is still where the ideas happen though, and always will be. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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