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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:37:57 GMT
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- In article <Bxpoy9.GD6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > There is jargon and there is jargon. I know of no case in which anybody
- > in mathematics or statistics deliberately introduced jargon for the purpose
- > of obfuscation, or deliberately introduced notation which conflicted with
- > notation in another field.
-
- So you're making the claim that computer language syntax was deliberately
- introduced to obfuscate or conflict with another field? Is that really
- what you mean here, or am I putting words in your mouth?
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