On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:31:21 PM UTC+5:30, Ravi Sahni wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, rusi wrote: > > To explain at length will be too long and OT (off-topic) for this list. > > I'll just give you a link and you tell me what you make of it: > > http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Whorfframe2.html > > > I am trying to read link. Very new idea: Buildings can catch fire by > wrong boards!! > > Later part difficult for me to read. (My English not powerful --please > excuse.) > I will make my fullest efforts to read on your recommend
Hell No! I only asked you to read the first page! [And 'Mr. Mark' will scold<wink>] > but I not > clear the connection with computers, programming, computer science and > so on. Also this Mr. Mark Lawrence question. Once you get that buildings can catch fire by wrong terminology you should get that: - the term 'Turing machine' can make people think its a machine even though its a mathematical formalism - the term 'λ-calculus' (partly due to the word calculus and partly due to the greek lambda) makes people think its mathematics even though its a computational framework -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
