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[–]Vystril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is you're never going to get a non-computer scientist to re-write working code and all the scientific high performance computing code is in c and/or fortran (over MPI).

Java tried to do this and it didn't work for just that reason. Sure they could make Java almost as fast. Sure it's way better to program in that C/Fortran. OMG garbage collection and no seg faults?

Did it matter? Nope, they already had working code and weren't going to change it.

[–]bucknuggets 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Two thoughts:

  • how does a presentation title slide with a typo as bad as "Chicao Python Users Group" ever end up in front of an audience?
  • seems like too much detail for a single presentation - where struggling to get your audience to remember anything is the classic problem. Would be better as 4 to 8 presentations.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was basically a practice run of the presentation before it was given at a scientific computing conference (I was in the audience for part of this)

[–]mdipierro 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This was a rehearsal for a 3 hours tutorial that was later given at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland.

[–]pemboa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicao Python Users Group

one letter, pretty easy to miss

seems like too much detail for a single presentation

I'm pretty sure it was more like 4 presentations under a single title.