Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-18 Thread Xah Lee
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/index.html i was trying to find the publication date and context, but didn't find it last time after a couple min. Yesterday, on rereading, i did. The article in question is: « Mathematical Notation: Past and Future (2000) Stephen Wolfram

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-17 Thread Xah Lee
2009-08-17 On Aug 16, 10:32 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > Personally, particular interesting info i've learned is that, for all > my trouble in the past decade expressing problems of traditional math > notation, i learned from his article this single-phrase summary: > “traditional math notation lacks a gr

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-17 Thread John Nagle
Xah Lee wrote: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations. http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstract.html this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer “science” idiotic authors who harbor the notion that syntax is not important, picked

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Kaz Kylheku
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.lisp.] On 2009-08-17, Peter Keller wrote: > In comp.lang.scheme Peter Keller wrote: >> The distance() function in this new model is the centroid of the syntactic >> datum which represent the semantic object. > > Oops. > > I meant to say: > > "The distance()

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme Peter Keller wrote: > The distance() function in this new model is the centroid of the syntactic > datum which represent the semantic object. Oops. I meant to say: "The distance() function in this new model uses the centroid of each individual syntactic datum (which represen

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Xah Lee
Personally, particular interesting info i've learned is that, for all my trouble in the past decade expressing problems of traditional math notation, i learned from his article this single-phrase summary: “traditional math notation lacks a grammar”. The article is somewhat disappointing though. I

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme toby wrote: > In my opinion Knuth believed in the value of literate programming for > similar reasons: To try to exploit existing cognitive training. If > your user base is familiar with English, or mathematical notation, or > some other lexicography, try to exploit the pre-wir

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Jon Harrop
w_a_x_man wrote: > On Aug 16, 11:05 am, Petey Keller wrote: >> Compiler go through *great* pains > > Compiler work real hard. > Compiler have heap big trouble. ROTFL. :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread rjf
On Aug 16, 9:05 am, Peter Keller wrote: > In comp.lang.scheme Xah Lee wrote: > > > Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations. > > >http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstr... > > > this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer > > ?science

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread toby
On Aug 16, 12:05 pm, Peter Keller wrote: > In comp.lang.scheme Xah Lee wrote: > > > Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations. > > >http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstr... > > > this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer > > ?scienc

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme w_a_x_man wrote: > On Aug 16, 11:05?am, Petey Keller wrote: >> Compiler go through *great* pains > > Compiler work real hard. > Compiler have heap big trouble. That's a funny observation in the context of this thread--which I appreciate, since syntax really is the cornersto

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread w_a_x_man
On Aug 16, 11:05 am, Petey Keller wrote: > Compiler go through *great* pains Compiler work real hard. Compiler have heap big trouble. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme Xah Lee wrote: > Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations. > > http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstract.html > > this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer > ?science? idiotic authors who harbor the notion that