On Jun 13, 2009, at 17:35, Graham Cox wrote:
On 14/06/2009, at 3:13 AM, Mr. George Warner wrote:
I've considered kinematics pretty much "open-source" since Newton
published "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687. ;-)
Well, this is the problem. I'm not super hot on maths, so for me to
reinvent the wheel from first principles would be a long drawn-out
process. For example, I found a very nice paper that fairly clearly
laid out an approach to the problem that made sense to me, but
didn't include much detail, and talked about "Jacobians" as if
anyone would know exactly what they were and how to code them. What
little code it included was in Eiffel - typical academics ignoring
what people actually use in the real world.
It occurs to me that if the clever people at Apple (and NeXT) had just
got their act together a *little* earlier, Newton could have published
in Objective-C, instead of a dead procedural language that no one uses
any more. ;)
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