On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 11:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:44:11PM -0800, Christoph Maier wrote: > > Anyway, if you program something successfully, you can be reasonably > > sure that you have formulated the problem completely, without any > > face-saving handwaving. > > It is for historical reasons that mathematical notation was developed > before computer science languages. Here's a thought....I don't see > why they couldn't potentially be unified. Why do we necessarily need > one syntax for math books and one for software?
It has been tried before. Christoph <- Been there. Done APL. Anyway, how's the MIT study program progressing? I'm wondering whether I should try to play catch up. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
