On Feb 29, 5:33 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > > And rightly rejected by many other programming languages, including > > > modern Python, not to mention calculators, real mathematics and > > > common sense. > > > Lost me again. I was not aware that calculators, real mathematics > > and common sense were programming languages. > > I didn't say they were. Please parse my sentence again.
In the widest sense of the term computer and programming language, actually calculators and real mathematics are programming languages. Programming languages is a way to communicate problems with computer. Computer is anything that does computation (and that includes calculator and a room full of a bunch of people doing calculation with pencil and paper[1]). The expressions we write in a calculator is a (very limited) programming language, while mathematics conventions is a language to communicate a mathematician's problems with the computers[2] and other mathematicians [1] Actually the term computer was first used to refer to this bunch of people [2] The computers in this sense is people that does computation -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
