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Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again]
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Doug Kaufman |
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Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again] |
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:00:53 -0800 (PST) |
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> As someone with a Math & CS BA this sort of statement amazes me...
> javascript,
> java, C, C++, etc, etc are all standard imperative languages. All decent CS
> students should be able to pick up such a language with at most a few days.
>
> I think inform is also an imperative language but have not looked at it
> recently. Practically all CS students also know how to use a functional
> programming language as well an imperative one. Would I be wrong in thinking
> you do not have a degree level computer science qualifiction?
>
> FYI I have used CSP in anger. Attempting to blind me with formal methods is
> likely to fail completely.
I don't think that I understood a single sentence of this. Is this a
joke without emoticons? Could someone translate this for me? What are
"CS" (? Computer Science) and "CSP"? What does "imperative" mean?
Doug
(with no computer training whatsoever)
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