All my favourite tools

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From: Thomas Koenig
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:19

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What do you think essential or very useful computer tools for today's
scientist?

In the 'essential' category I would include a spreadsheet, a good graphics
package, a FORTRAN compiler with NAG, IMSL or equivalent libraries and a
word processor capable of producing high - quality formulas.

In my 'extremely useful to have' category are two UNIX utilities: awk
for manipulating data in tabular form and make for maintaining all the
different sort of files often associated with a single experiment. Also
very useful is a symbolic math program like Mathematica or Maple.

I suppose that more statistically inclined people will also need a good
statistics package.

Anything I've missed?
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.

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From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:19:16 GMT
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