--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Stock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hm, wait. Little evidence of city life and was clearly at the heart
of an
extensive trading network appear contradictory to me. Well, at least
when I
consider other historical examples of how trading opportunity and/or
activity
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but I have
recently learned the programming language R, and it seems that
it's exactly what you would like to use to teach your kids
how to use a computer:
(a) it's free and available for _all_ systems [M$, Linux, Mac]
(b) it's simple to use
(c)
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but I have
recently learned the programming language R, and it seems that
it's exactly what you would like to use to teach your kids
how to use a computer:
(a) it's free and available for _all_ systems [M$, Linux, Mac]
How about the good
Klaus Stock suggested:
OTOH, on more modern computers, one might teach the child OOA and
OOP with some Smalltalk system.
From...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Because of that the meaning of Smalltalk expressions using
binary messages can be different from their traditional
On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:02 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gibson Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My problem with this particular situation is a serious lack of
evenhandedness shows deepening flaws. For almost two decades I've
watched conservative politicians court and skirt
On 9/18/06, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the eve of the 2004 election, a liberal Christian pastor in Pasadena
preached (what is reportedly) a highly political anti-war and
anti-poverty sermon with the result that the IRS is threatening to take
away the church's tax-exempt status. I
In case anybody wants the wording of the IRS code:
'prohibits these organizations from participating in, or intervening
in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any
political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate
for public office.'
It seems as though a
Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Klaus Stock suggested:
OTOH, on more modern computers, one might teach the child OOA and
OOP with some Smalltalk system.
From...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Because of that the meaning of Smalltalk expressions using
Hi brinellers! Glad to see you still in business!
I am very sorry to have neglected you in favor of that
darned, time-consuming blog.
http://www.davidbrin.blogspot.com/
In part because the political issues are so
important/urgent right now that I'll grab any
influence where I can get it.
Of
Although number one, M$oft, could be done with some public pressure -
or Apple doing it first - my vote is Four:
4) In order to keep using those textbooks (like my
son’s) that still have TRY IT IN BASIC exercises, one
reader had a fantastically simple suggestion. A
turn-key web site! “For
On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 21/09/2006, at 1:13 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 9/20/06, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But it's often used wrongly, to state that the
probabilitical nature of scientific proof means we can't be
certain
of some things.
Hey, you
Hi,
WHILE we're on the subject of ancient programming languages AND their
relative merits, we might as well dip into that deep well of wisdom
regarding programming that poured forth from the nimble fingers of
Edsger Dijkstra:
How do we tell truths that might hurt?
For those of you who are thinking about implementing
an online BASIC interpreter, here's one that's
already
running:
http://www.pachesoft.com/rockerferbasic/
This is a great idea. But need to make a list of
attributes that such an implementation would need.
1. A good welcome page that gave
Dave Land wrote:
PS: The Good Doctor's eulogy for BASIC is mentioned in the
Maturity section of the Wikipedia entry for BASIC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
Hmmm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BASICaction=history
... who is Dland? :-)
Now do the proper homework and
On 22 Sep 2006 at 8:22, David Brin wrote:
Only a small minority seemed at all interested in even
looking at my core idea, which was how to create a
nice, comfortable starting point for millions of kids,
so they could use their computers to do a little
COMPUTING for mild classroom
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On 21/09/2006, at 12:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The similarity is a fact. The
At 10:11 AM Friday 9/22/2006, Klaus Stock wrote:
OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
x := 1 / 3.
x := 3 * x.
x inspect.
Common sense tells us that the result is 0.999 - but Smalltalk insists
on 1.
Funny, that's exactly the example many books used
30-odd years ago to
On 22 Sep 2006, at 10:21PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But with 9/11, autism/vaccine crankery, creationism, alternative
medicine, perpetual motion and so on, we're seeing groups that
either corrupt this relationship and the nature of science, or just
ignore or dismiss it entirely.
These
On 23/09/2006, at 1:11 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
x := 1 / 3.
x := 3 * x.
x inspect.
Common sense tells us that the result is 0.999 - but Smalltalk
insists
on 1.
Um, .9* *is* 1.
Charlie
On 23/09/2006, at 7:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The relationship between
fact and theory (or maybe data and hypothesis) is dynamic and not
easily
seperated.
So is it a fact that evolution occurs because of natural selection
or is that a theory? After all the data to support
At 08:20 PM Friday 9/22/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/09/2006, at 1:11 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
x := 1 / 3.
x := 3 * x.
x inspect.
Common sense tells us that the result is 0.999 - but Smalltalk
insists
on 1.
Um, .9* *is* 1.
On 23/09/2006, at 11:52 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:20 PM Friday 9/22/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/09/2006, at 1:11 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
x := 1 / 3.
x := 3 * x.
x inspect.
Common sense tells us that the result is 0.999
At 09:02 PM Friday 9/22/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/09/2006, at 11:52 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:20 PM Friday 9/22/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/09/2006, at 1:11 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
OTOH, consider the following Smalltalk code:
x := 1 / 3.
x := 3 * x.
x inspect.
On 9/22/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.
The Wikipedia entry for R is under GNU-S :-)
Alberto Monteiro
I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's
actually at [[R (programming language)]]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29),
... Especially when you subtract two nearly equal numbers.
Computers do, but do no programming environments take account of
this, by marking recurring numbers as such?
Anyone know how Mathematica works?
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn--
I believe it avoids decimal approximations unless they are
At 10:14 PM Friday 9/22/2006, David Hobby wrote:
... Especially when you subtract two nearly equal numbers.
Computers do, but do no programming environments take account of
this, by marking recurring numbers as such?
Anyone know how Mathematica works?
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn--
I believe it
At 10:01 PM Friday 9/22/2006, maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/22/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.
The Wikipedia entry for R is under GNU-S :-)
Alberto Monteiro
I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's
actually at [[R (programming language)]]
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