On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If calculus books were required to present mathermatical statements in Scheme or Python code that ran correctly, then they would be forced to make obvious all this implied information.
And it would probably stop anyone from learning anything about calculus. Well placed lies are a very important part of a well-written text book. Newtonian physics are incorrect, but special relativity would be a terrible place to start in an introductory physics class. But, something much deeper than all of this is that Scheme/Python are going to be limited to representing things that are computable. There's a lot of things about the world that aren't computable. A lot of reality deals with uncomputable things, and you cannot explain these in a programming language. Think about Gödel. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
