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- From: ort@netcom.com (David Oertel)
- Subject: Re: IS C++ a language for the "average programmer"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.061711.7568@netcom.com>
- Summary: Re: Is C++ a language for the "leverage programmer"
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- References: <rmartin.724630113@thor> <1992Dec23.202737.19600@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:17:11 GMT
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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
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- >The simple mathematical operations that we take for granted are simply
- >derivations of the 13 assumptions. Algebra is an extension of those.
- >Calculus and geometry are an extensions of algebra. The advantage of one
- >method over another is that you have different conceptual levels and
- >notational syntaxes (and symboligies) which represent them.
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- >Object-orientedness doesn't allow you to solve problems that couldn't be
- >solved otherwise. It does, however, allow a different way of addressing
- >the problems that you are given to solve.
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- I can corroborate this idea with regard to calculus. Newton used to
- solve problems using calculus and then publish his solutions using
- algebra. He didn't reveal calculus until the end of his life when he
- was under competitive pressure from Leibniz. I don't think that
- anyone know for sure why he delayed, but he was extremely eccentric.
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- Dave Oertel
- ort@netcom.com
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