HappySqurriel said:
So you think that a program written by a Biology PHD to model the formation of pond scum who has no motivation of making a generally reuseable program, will end up becomming a useable API for a wide variety of applications? |
Probably not, although if he has a degree in Computer Science, he might. I was thinking more the CS major who wants to use the CELL to see how fast he can make a simulated annealing algorithm run, and knows he is going to have a code review.
Or just someone who wants to see how efficient of a message passing system he can produced as a masters project.
But you might be surprised at how much high quality reusable code had been produced by Biologist. A lot of them have been writing better code then you or I, long before you or I ever saw a computer.
