All of this talk about the "average guy" is ungrounded. Average over what set and how are you getting the data? It may (or may not) be true that that the average *programmer* understands that big numbers (how big?) are something special, but IMHO that (if true) would probably be because the average programmer was first exposed to bad languages.
-Lee On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Nicolas Oury wrote: > +1. The average guy understands that "big numbers" are something special. The > average guy also want to have close to native speed when he first tries a > language, not * 10 or * 20 that. > -- Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 lspec...@hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 Check out Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: http://www.springer.com/10710 - http://gpemjournal.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
