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From: | Ralf Hemmecke |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: TeXmacs+Axiom |
Date: | Mon, 21 May 2007 10:39:15 +0200 |
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On 05/21/2007 03:40 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes: [...] | > I don't understand C very well,| | Every time someone on this list says "I don't understand X"| but they already program in Aldor/Spad/Lisp or whatever, it | makes me wonder about their motivations as opposed to their | skill ... :-)
I did not say that I cannot read C at all, but it is one of the languages that I had never much need to learn by heart.
And my motivations are "programming mathematics". C is an assembly language for me.
| "C" is a particularly simple language. Fully agreed.
Of course, every one (also those not knowledgable in C) know how to parse int *x[5] I find (int *)[5] x or (int[5]) * x easier to understand.Of course I could learn C and do a project to become fully acquaint with it. But that would probably cost me several months.
If, however programs were literate, I could perhaps even improve them without being an every day C programmer.
I hope you understand that this was my point and not whether someone can program in this or that language.
Programming a Turing machine is also a very simple, but not very practical if you your motivations lie in the implementation of mathematics.
Ralf
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