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- From: akao@.com (Adam Kao)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.005857.2241@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:58:57 GMT
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- In article <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
-
- [computer usage conflicting with mathematics]
-
- >SOME of this may have been inadvertent, and due to the ignorance of those
- >introducing the notation. But for a language designer with large backing
- >not to check on this is in the nature of criminal negligeance, at least.
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- Computer science is not mathematics. Computer science is not the servant
- of mathematics. Computer science is related to mathematics only by
- historical accident.
-
- Feel free to design a computer language for mathematics. Don't pretend
- that other computer languages (least of all C) exist to serve you.
-
- Adam
-
- "Those French people have a different word for _everything_!!!"
-