> > > e.g. a particular paradigm (e.g. imperative) makes sense to a given > individual, but then they get totally tripped up by the horribly > non-standard vs. math details (cf. limits on ranges of values). >
Which is what I said earlier about exception cases. But in reality most people hardly ever encounter them - yes, it is true that computer arithmetic is weird, but I honestly cannot remember the last time I was doing arithmetic with numbers that could have generated those kind of exceptions. I think this is a complete red herring. But there again so is the whole idea of intuitiveness. Question : do you think that using recursion is intuitive? I have seen people use it without having been introduced to it (and try to use it on old Fortran systems - ooops), but I have also been people entirely perplexed by it. So which is it? L.
