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.


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