Stef Mientki wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Unless you clearly explain the benefits... Any code relying on the >> existence of a global is: >> 1/ dependent on the existence of this global >> 2/ harder to understand > And you think physicians will believe that ? > And suppose they believe it, are the willing to stop their research to > rethink and rewrite their code ;-)
If they give a damn about their research, they will. Sloppy, irreproducible lab technique is not acceptable. Sloppy, impossible-to-verify code shouldn't be, either. I'd say more, but Greg Wilson has said it better, and has provided course materials to teach good programming practices to scientists. http://swc.scipy.org/ Of particular note are his article in the _American Scientist_: http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/48548 and his slides from his talk at SciPy '06: http://www.third-bit.com/lectures/scipy06.pdf -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
