re: #93 HoosierHoops

Hi Lud!
I would really like to see advances in new software tools for our Scientists..
It’s a smart investment in our future…

Hey buddy!

Interesting. I am not sure where you are going with it though.

I can say that professionally there are a number of programs that are very powerful and continuously being updated that are used daily in the science world.

I can also say that a large amount of the software we need, we write ourselves.

The biggest packages that get used the most are things like Maple and Mathematica for theory types and MathCad and Labview for the experimentalists.

The are a number of cute little programs to put Feynman Diagrams into your papers though.

There are other things that get used a lot too but are more specialized. Code Five for optics is a great example.

If one wants something more efficient than those programs, they are stuck coding it themselves.