Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

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translogi  <wilemien@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Jun 25, 12:40=A0pm, Frederick Williams
><frederick.willia...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> rAgAv wrote:

>> > [...] I know only the basics of C++.

>> And you haven't been put off computer programming for life?


>I am still a favourite of old fa****oned Q basic.

>I think it is good to know the basics in a simple way.
>It maybe slower than C++ but it is easy.

>And you can make  very sophisticated programs with it.

One can make very sophisticated programs in any
language with adequate reference capability.  One
could program any machine-language combination,
except possibly for timing conditions, on even a
decent programmable calculator with sufficient
memory.

Computers are essentially a fixed program, the
hardware, which then has a small initialized amount
of software, quite variable, which enables it to 
try to do what the user wants.  Keep this in mind;
understand what the hardware can do, which is 
different on different machines, and think in those
terms, not the current poorly designed languages.


>At the moment writing a condenced detachment theorem creator.

>It does work, not quickly (But still faster than me) not nice and
>****ny (no grahics and so)
>But still it works. (except that it still has some unresolved
>problems)

>and it really shows that logic is nothing else than the manipulation
>of meaningless symbols...

Communication is nothing more than the manipulation of 
meaningless symbols as well.  We have some established
convention, but are not the 0's and 1's in a computer
representation of what is written here a string of symbols
which by themselves are meaningless?


>Ps do it in the interpretor, not in the compilor and add lots of tests
>that interrupt the program when something was not the way you thought
>you programmed it.


>Good luck








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