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- From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <TMB.92Nov20131854@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:18:54 GMT
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- In-reply-to: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 20:07:31 GMT
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- In article <BxxH8K.C4t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
-
- It has been pointed out that there were other possibilities from the
- palette of available characters. And if they didn't *care*, as you
- put it, which I am almost sure most of them will deny, that is an
- explicit statement to the mathematical and scientific community that
- they will have to establish their own CS programs to develop it, and
- consider what the CS language guys are doing as no more relevant than
- natural language research into Nostratic.
-
- You are finally getting the point: evidently, your needs are not
- served by the large amount of current research on programming
- languages, even scientific ones. I don't consider that an indictment
- of current research programs. If you want something different, you
- have to invest your time, effort, and money.
-
- Thomas.
-