On 06/04/2014 21:10, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Many classic CS ideas are expressed in terms of an Algol-like language.
Nothing would prevent you from framing those ideas in a Python-like
(pseudo)language. The question is mostly whether you prefer begin/end,
braces or indentation.
Of course whilst all this work in the fields of languages, algorithms
and such like has been going on, in parallel engineers have been working
on the hardware side of things. My understanding is that some abacuses
now have as many as ten strings on them. Although this scale was at
first difficult for the users to grasp, the designers came up with the
fantastic idea of using different coloured beads on different strings to
simplify the user experience.
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Mark Lawrence
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