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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: IS C++ a language for the "average programmer"
- Message-ID: <24498@alice.att.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:29:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24498
- References: <1992Dec23.202737.19600@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec28.052523.15305@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In article <1992Dec28.052523.15305@nuscc.nus.sg> tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston) writes:
-
- > Extensions, yes,... with added assumptions.
- > Calculus requires the operation `take the limit',
- > which is not a part of basic arithmetic.
-
- Well...not really.
-
- If you construct the real numbers axiomatically,
- you will find that there is only one property that
- is necessary to distinguish them from the rationals,
- and that is precisely the property that defines limits.
-
- Now, you might argue that computers implement integers
- but don't truly imnplement reals -- but indeed they don't
- truly implement integers either.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-