Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

Marshall <marshall.spight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> On Jun 27, 7:46 am, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSensel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > If the OP wants to be a language lawyer, or primarily a computer
> > scientist, then of course he doesn't want to be limited to C++. On
> > the other hand, some of us need to build things that just work.
> 
> The implication that people who need to build things that just work
> should be limited to C++ is flat-out hilarious.

Indeed -- as is the idea that someone who doesn't want to be a
language lawyer should stick to C++! Me, I have great fondness for
C++, but that is only because of its positively byzantine,
compile-time Turing-complete type system, the intricacies of which
lead to hours of language-laywering fun.

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