From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-03 01:25:19


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| Oddly enough, scientists is usually pretty
| conservative folk; they like what they know.

Is that so odd? Yesterday I talked with a matematician here in Sydney about Fortran.
He uses Fortran because it is good enough for what he is doing. It would probably take quite some
time for him to learn C++, so why should he?

br

Thorsten