What's a version-control system?
Posted by Urban Hafner
Just found a link to Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing? on the BioWeka Blog. It’s basically about scientists writing software without knowing much about it. As the title of this entry suggests, when asked if they use version control you might well get the answer “What’s version control?”.
Thinking of bioinformatics, I have the feeling that we’re getting there slowly. As more people get in there that have studied bioinformatics (like me :)), and more computer scientists too, we might see them influence their biology colleagues to apply more “common” tools to their programming.
