Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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Amen.
I see so many projects use C "because it's fast", but actually because people don't know anything else. And let's be honest: C is primitive, which is fine for certain areas of system development, but for applications you would rather have something more high-level that did provide automagic memory management, for example. Oh, and all those buffer overflows that we get to suffer from would not be such a problem if we used a decent standard library that provided safe functions...