Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] How unimportant it is whether submarines can swim (EWD1056)

2012-10-30 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: In particular, there is one small notational point that he insisted on towards the end of his career (and life) viz. where traditional mathematicians write *f(x) *and functional programmers write *f x*, he would write

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] How unimportant it is whether submarines can swim (EWD1056)

2012-10-27 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:17:27 +0200, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: - with which popular believe (popular belief?) Changed - between day and night (night and day is more idiomatic in English, isn't it?) I changed it, although, according to Google, between day and night is used very

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] How unimportant it is whether submarines can swim (EWD1056)

2012-10-27 Thread Jason Dusek
It is an interesting piece and I'm glad you went to the effort to translate it. - ...the question whether... + ...the question of whether or not... To use could is to form either the past or the subjunctive. Within a long sentence, we might prefer to contribute an article on a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] How unimportant it is whether submarines can swim (EWD1056)

2012-10-27 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nlwrote: L.S., I thought you might be interested to know, that I have translated one of prof. Edsger W. Dijkstra's writings to English[0]. I will submit this translation to the E. W. Dijkstra Archive of the University of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] How unimportant it is whether submarines can swim (EWD1056)

2012-10-26 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: L.S., I thought you might be interested to know, that I have translated one of prof. Edsger W. Dijkstra's writings to English[0]. I will submit this translation to the E. W. Dijkstra Archive of the University of