CompuServe Messages

To ALL Amiga Users: In the editorial in this month's Amiga World I was suprised to see their reader survey revealed "desparing wails" about a lack of scientific software. As a physics graduate student I always thought of scientific software as something you wrote when youy needed it. I suppose I've been overlooking an opportunity. I have had my Amiga for over a year now and can program reaonably well in C and use most of the Amiga libraries. I have an MS in physics and did much FORTRAN programming for my thesis. I do not have a job just now so I can devote most of my time to programming. I do have one Question for any Amiga Users who want scientific software: What do YOU want, exactly, in the way of scientific software. I would not want to waste too much time on a program to calculate Clebsch-Gordon coefficients, for example, unless I knew there was some Amiga User other than myself who even knew what a Clebsch-Gordon coefficient was, and wanted a program to calculate them. Also I would welcome any comments on the relative merits of trying to sell software to publishing companies vs. distributing it as shareware vs. trying to setup my own company to sell it. Herbert L. Crowder – via Whap!