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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...it doesn't mean that they are totally useless. Being a computational linguistics student, i write programs to crunch lexical items and not numbers. it is only the past year or so where i've started to realise that you can't have a "one programming language fits all". there have been times when i was doing a java program and a problem arose that i thought "if only i could do this in prolog".
of the different languages i know (java, prolog, perl, lisp, shell script (is this a programming language??)), i can think of various problems that can be easier solved by each langauge.