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- From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: IS C++ a language for the "average programmer"
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:02:11 GMT
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- ort@netcom.com (David Oertel) writes:
- -> Newton used to solve problems using calculus and then publish his
- -> solutions using algebra. He didn't reveal calculus until the end of his
- -> life when he was under competitive pressure from Leibniz. I don't think
- -> that anyone know for sure why he delayed, but he was extremely eccentric.
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- He probably had an NSF grant deadline comming up and wanted to get
- all those papers he'd been meaning to write all his life in press.
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- Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
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