Re: How to get into Scientific Programming

"Baruch Vainas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >
> [...]
> > > The "core business" (apologizing for the business buzzword) of the
> > > academia are scientific DISCIPLINES.
> >
> > "academia" != "university";
>
> According to dictionary.com, academia = academe ==> academic
> environment. Its source is, academy ==> "An institution for the study
> of higher learning; a college or a university". Note the last word.
> Nice try William, but you are wrong.

So "Marine Corps"* == "Microsoft Corporation" because at some point,
the latin root "corpus" gets involved?  There is such a thing as too much
deconstruction, you know.

Since we've devolved to convoluted dictionary searches, I think death,
sweet death, has overtaken this thread. At least it did not go gentle into
that dark night, but burned and raved up to the end, and raged against
the dying of the light. (Is that a Welsh poet I hear spinning in his grave?)
-Wm

* And a happy 228th birthday greeting to the U.S. Marines. Nothing for
you, Microsoft, sorry.