If you were a physicist, you’d likely also have to be a programmer – the inverse...

michael_h · on Aug 6, 2013

Public service announcement for physicists fancying themselves as programmers: Learn the following topics before going any futher:

  * BLAS (please)
  * LAPACK
  * memset
  * memcpy
  * 'Segmentation Fault' is not a synonym for 'exited successfully'.

Those who maintain your code will thank you for it. Sometimes it might get you chocolates.

CamperBob2 · on Aug 6, 2013

'Segmentation Fault' is not a synonym for 'exited successfully'.

Next, you'll tell me that 'Thank you for playing Wing Commander' is not a synonym for 'EMM386 exception 006A at 00B8:3128'.