Lourens Veen

9 posts

Research Software Engineer with interests in programming languages, software sustainability, and design.

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Nov 27, 2024

Is scientific software the new land grab?

3 Scientific software platforms are not always as open as they look at first sight. Avoid getting locked in with this advice! “Do you know what CodeOcean is? Should I do this?” As a Research Software...

Nov 7, 2024

Variables, Records, Values and Objects

14 The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by...

Aug 1, 2024

Scripting vs. Programming

Lourens Veen·Apr 26, 2023 Any remaining differences are usually due to particular features supported by certain languages. In R for example, you can write down a statistical model equation, for which...

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Jul 18, 2024

What Research Software Engineers can learn from Taylor Swift

14 It’s Friday night, 5 July 2024. After some out-of-this-world pizza and a couple of drinks with colleagues, I’m on my way to catching a late train home. I get to the station just in time to park my...

Jul 5, 2024

Better scripts with typing

1 The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by...

Jul 5, 2024

Procedural Programming

The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by wo...

Sep 28, 2020

Use-after-free? No more with Valgrind

In my long career as a code detective, I have seen it all. I have travelled the high Cs, found Rubies and wrestled Pythons, and walked the alleyways of Fortran at night. Of course, as with any job mos...

Oct 5, 2017

free as in free market

Or why the GNU General Public License is open for business When you release your software on the Internet for others to use, you need to choose a license for it. One issue you might want to consider i...

May 23, 2017

a license to science

The Beastie Boys were Licensed to Ill, James Bond had a licence to kill. I want a license to science. Science, it is said, is standing on the shoulders of giants. We scientists design experiments, col...

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