Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms

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From: akao Adam Kao
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:58

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In article <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

	[computer usage conflicting with mathematics]

>SOME of this may have been inadvertent, and due to the ignorance of those
>introducing the notation.  But for a language designer with large backing
>not to check on this is in the nature of criminal negligeance, at least.

Computer science is not mathematics.  Computer science is not the servant
of mathematics.  Computer science is related to mathematics only by
historical accident.

Feel free to design a computer language for mathematics.  Don't pretend
that other computer languages (least of all C) exist to serve you.

Adam

"Those French people have a different word for _everything_!!!"

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