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Article #20Re: Python in "math through programming" curriculum
From: Clifford J. Nelson
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:09
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:09
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Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Clifford J. Nelson wrote: > > I'm sure I don't attach ANY weight to any of your opinions. > > I've seen your web sites about Synergetics and programming! > > clifford, please keep your personal problems off > comp.lang.python. > > </F> You're right. I take it personally when Bucky Fuller's Synergetics (see 1) is made to seem like some far out religion, by Kirby Urner or anyone else, or when computer programming in a language (Python) that can't apparently help itself well enough to use it to make a good interactive programming environment for the Mac, is promoted over much easier languages, like Clean (see 2) or Object Caml 3.0 (see 3) or even the hard to learn J programming language (see 4). All of those languages are garbage compared to Mathematica of course because programming (OOP) is all just really pattern matching and replacement (see 5), but they're free and they work on both the Mac and Windows, so they are worth looking at. 1) http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html 2) http://www.deene.ufu.br/clean/clean1.html 3) http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/ 4) http://www.jsoftware.com/ 5) http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/IMS/imstalk.html Cliff Nelson
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