On 9/23/06, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maru wrote:
>
>> The Wikipedia entry for R is under "GNU-S" :-)
>
>
> I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here,
>
marudubinski, I presume :-)
You forgot the "Dr."! ...(Nah, I'm kidding.)
Ok, but if we wa
Maru wrote:
>
>> The Wikipedia entry for R is under "GNU-S" :-)
>
>
> I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here,
>
marudubinski, I presume :-)
> but it's
> actually at [[R (programming language)]]
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29), like it
> should (s
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 avoi
... 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
specif
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
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 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 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.
.999
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
__
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 il
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 assignm
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=BASIC&action=history
... who is Dland? :-)
Now do the proper homework
> 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
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?"
(http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~
Although number one, M$oft, could be done with some public pressure -
or Apple doing it first - my vote is Four:
4) In order to keep using those textbooks (like my
son’s) that still have TRY IT IN BASIC exercises, one
reader had a fantastically simple suggestion. A
turn-key web site! “For
Hi brinellers! Glad to see you still in business!
I am very sorry to have neglected you in favor of that
darned, time-consuming blog.
http://www.davidbrin.blogspot.com/
In part because the political issues are so
important/urgent right now that I'll grab any
influence where I can get it.
Of co
"Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Klaus Stock suggested:
> >
> > OTOH, on more modern computers, one might teach the child OOA and
> > OOP with some Smalltalk system.
> >
> From...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
>
> Because of that the meaning of Smalltalk expressions
Klaus Stock suggested:
>
> OTOH, on more modern computers, one might teach the child OOA and
> OOP with some Smalltalk system.
>
From...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Because of that the meaning of Smalltalk expressions using
binary messages can be different from their "traditiona
> I don't know if this has already been suggested, but I have
> recently learned the programming language R, and it seems that
> it's exactly what you would like to use to teach your kids
> how to use a computer:
>
> (a) it's free and available for _all_ systems [M$, Linux, Mac]
How about the goo
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
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