Re: SI Units - has Ada missed the boat?

[kevin cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com>]

On Jul 18, 3:17 am, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus.rm.t...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> kevin cline wrote:
> > This is rather unwieldy since Java does not allow operator
> > overloading.  Who wants to read code like:
>
> >    time_aloft = sqrt(height.times(2).divide(g))
>
> I'd like to know why this programmer's expression of a formula
> for use by a computer is inferior, assuming the typical alternative
> would be[*]
>
>      time_aloft = sqrt((2 * height) / g))

With three thousand years of practice writing mathematical
expressions, symbolic operators are universally preferred over prosaic
expressions.  Would you also claim that:

  Let y = a times x times x plus b plus c

is just as easily grasped as:

  Let y = ax^2 + bx + c ?