8 Apr
2009
8 Apr
'09
4:39 a.m.
In article <49DBC630.27572.5DFDC848 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
Sometimes there is no faster machine. I remember
working on a
proposal back in the dark ages (we didn't get the contract) for
ECMWF (European Medium Range Weather Forecasts) and chatting with one
of the customer's technical people. His statement "Your system is
very nice, but we could really use something about a thousand times
faster" really hit me.
While this statement is indeed true for WEATHER FORECASTING, the average
programmer is not attempting to solve "Grand Challenge" problems.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Challenge>
Probably less than 1/10,000th of a percent of all programmers are
working in that field.
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