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Originally Posted by jjl
Thanks Kirk, I'll check out the article. I work beside some guys who do something similar - 'agent based modeling', where the object can be a person with behavioural outputs such as decision-making, which impacts others, affects their behaviour, and so on. Gets messy quickly, but really fascinating.
I'm in the process of buying a new Unix box (my Silicon Graphics Indigo died last month after 11 years of faithful service) and this might be a good time to come out of the software stone age too. Although, I tend to need max speed on these models - I had a comp sci student do a project re-writing some of my horrible C code into nice, modular C++ and she managed to slow it down to the point that it was unuseable, but really tidy. I might go for MATLAB as a step up the rung to begin with.
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VB.net and C#.net are platform independent, and they use the same symbol set, which means you can write in
VB, and then reverse compile it into C or C#. That means a programmer working at the easier to learn
VB level can rough out the program, turn it over to a C coder who can translate your source code into C at a press of a button, and the C guy can concentrate on those areas where C is most applicable, instead of being bogged down for months doing the whole thing in C. It's a brilliant idea from the Evil Empire.