On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:09:16 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Personally, I think this whole issue of precedence in a programming
language is over-rated. It seems to me that grouping of any non-trivial
set of calculations should be done so as to remove any possible confusion
as to intent. It is one more
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:06:42 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In , on 02/29/2012
>at 11:43 AM, Chiron said:
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>>Sure, mathematically it *should* go a particular way,
>
> No. Mathematically it should go the way that it is defined to go. There
> is nothing in
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:10:48 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> ROTF,LMAO! You obviously don't have a clue as to what Mathematics means.
> Free hint: it doesn't mean Arithmetic. You're as bigoted as Xah Lee,
Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, you could explain where he
is mista
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:09:16 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Xah, you won't grow even an inch taller by cutting others down.
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:13:11 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In , on 03/01/2012
>at 05:07 AM, Chiron said:
>
>>Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him,
>
> I'm treating him as he treats others.
OK.
>
>>BTW, I happen to agree with you insof
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:53:30 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In , on 03/02/2012
>at 02:17 PM, Chiron said:
>
>>What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing it,
>
> Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastis
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:11:09 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Yes.
Why do you ask? Is this not obvious?
Was this a rhetorical question?
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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:34:46 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
> while what you said is true, but the problem is that 99.99% of
> programers do NOT know this. They do not know Mathematica. They've never
> seen a
Could you please offer some evidence to support this claim? Most of the
programmers I've ever r
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:27:16 -0700, Xah Lee wrote:
> ãIs Programing Art or Scienceã
Why is this question important?
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On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:33:24 -0400, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> If the term "art" is good enough for Knuth it's good enough for me.
I think that may be the most intelligent comment so far...
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