Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

2013-04-18 Thread Jason Wilkins
Warning, this is a bit of a rant. That paragraph from Wikipedia seems to be confused. It gives the fourth paradigm as "declarative" but then says "first order logic for logic programming". It seems somebody did an incomplete replacement of "declarative" for "logic". Wikipedia is often schizophr

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

2013-04-18 Thread Jason Wilkins
I don't quite think I understand what you are saying. Are you saying that mathematical models are not a good foundation for computer science because computers are really made out of electronic gates? All I need to do is show that my model reduces to some basic physical implementation (with perhap