"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included." --- Edsger W.Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" 18 June 1975 I just miss the good old days ... On 6/30/06, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/30/06, Sasha <ndarray@mac.com> wrote:
On 6/30/06, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
... Besides, decent unit tests will catch these problems. We all know that every scientific code in existence is unit tested to the smallest routine, so this shouldn't be a problem for anyone.
Is this a joke? Did anyone ever measured the coverage of numpy unittests? I would be surprized if it was more than 10%.
Of course it's a joke. So obviously one for anyone who knows the field, that the smiley shouldn't be needed (and yes, I despise background laughs on television, too). Maybe a sad joke, given the realities of scientific computing, and maybe a poor joke, but at least an attempt at humor.
Cheers,
f