On Mar 23, 8:14 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:15:00 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > > That's some professor inventing his very own variation on predicate > > calculus and writing a book using his own notation and terminology. > > There's no sign of footnotes or references to prior work. The notation > > doesn't seem to do anything not previously possible; it's just > > different. > > You say that as if it were unusual in maths circles :) >
Haha. As opposed to programmers who have all agreed to use the same language. Anyway, I have browsed the book and agree with Paul Rubin that there doesn't seem to be any unusual notation in it, although there are a numbers of topics that I am not really familiar with. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
