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From: stafford@denver.alc.com (Randy Stafford)
Subject: Re: OBJECT-ORIENTED COMPUTING IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
Message-ID: <1994Sep20.201613.473@denver.alc.com>
Organization: Ascent Logic Corporation, San Jose, CA
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 20:16:13 GMT
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In article <35kj1r$jf7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev) writes:
>"OBJECT-ORIENTED COMPUTING IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES"
[...]
>Most of the scientific computing being done all over the world today uses the  
>classic resources made available during the heyday of mainframe computers and  
>the introduction of relatively simple graphical user interfaces (X11).   
[...]
>The new generations of object-oriented (OO) computer languages and systems  
>promise to free the users from much of this archaic computational burden but  
>are being developed mainly with commercial applications in mind.


Right on!  8-)

This guy must have been inspired by the "Whither Smalltalk" thread  ;-)


Randy
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