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Another "big" question
To continue the interesting prognostication thread, here is another question. Several scientific fields have become increasingly reliant on programming - ranging from sophisticated data analysis to various kinds of standard simulation methodologies. Thus far most of this work is done in conventional languages, with R being the notable exception, being a language mostly dedicated to statistical data analysis. However, as far as statistical analysis goes, R is general purpose -- it is not tied to any specific scientific field [clarification 1, clarification 2]. So the question is whether you think that in the foreseeable future (say 5-15 years) at least one scientific field will make significant use (over 5% market share) of a domain specific language whose functionality (expressiveness) or correctness guarantees will be specific to the scientific enterprise of the field.
It might be interesting to connect the discussion of this question to issues of "open science", the rise in post-publication peer-review, reproducability and so on.
By Ehud Lamm at 2015-08-23 06:11 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 11472 reads
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