[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:15:14PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Yes, but the difference is that the background info for mathematics *is*
precise. There is a directly derivable chain from very few, very simple
first principles the whole way through partial derivatives to the
simplification that derives the chain rule you talk about. This is
simply *not true* for programming in general.
We use carefully crafted physics/math software to efficiently communicate
your "directly derivable chain" as little or as far back as anyone wants to
go. That is how software comes into this. Programming is just a
communication tool.
How does that differ from using math?
How about a programming language like LOTOS using ACT.1, where the
language is actually defined in terms of rewrite rules?
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