Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:03:03 -0700, michel paul wrote: In secondary math classes we often say Math is a language, but we really don't teach it that way. The closest we get to that is calling the comparison operators

Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-24 Thread Janet Hawtin
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Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-24 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Actually, to the mathematician, programming is a fairly simple concept that can be expressed in several different ways as the working out of only two basic concepts, such as the S and K combinators (Unlambda or

Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-06 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:03:03 -0700, michel paul wrote: In secondary math classes we often say Math is a language, but we really don't teach it that way. The closest we get to that is calling the comparison operators 'verbs' and the various kinds of values that can be combined into

Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-06 Thread kirby urner
We have a spectrum of languages gluing equations and other special notations into a larger patchwork of interconnecting disciplines. It's not that there's the vernacular and then math. OO is actually an approach to (mirror of) human grammar in taking the object thing very seriously, maximizing

[Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-03 Thread michel paul
In secondary math classes we often say Math is a language, but we really don't teach it that way. The closest we get to that is calling the comparison operators 'verbs' and the various kinds of values that can be combined into expressions 'nouns'. So, as far as contemporary secondary math

[Edu-sig] nouns and verbs

2008-08-03 Thread kirby urner
[ repost after delivery failure ] From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs To: michel paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: edu-sig@python.org edu-sig@python.org, Glenn Stockton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/8/3 michel paul [EMAIL PROTECTED