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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.184843.11925@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <BxLupy.M9K@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <721627374@sheol.UUCP> <Bxpoy9.GD6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:48:43 GMT
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- In article <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- |> 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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- Well, I can't speak for Dr. Rubin nor for the designers of any language.
- However, deliberate obfuscation is a *plausible* explanation for some of
- the features of a certain popular language. ;>)
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- J. Giles
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