From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/30
Date: 1997-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher) wrote:
>Craig Franck (clfranck@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher) wrote:
>: >Craig Franck (clfranck@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>: >
>: >: (I don't think calculus is "technology" but represented an advancement of
>: >: mathematics when it was invented by Newton (or that Leibnitz fellow)).
>: >
>: >: So, a NAND gate is not technology, but transistors and the ability to
>: >
>: >Isn't "technology" a relatively new word?
>
>: I would imagine. The concept of technology and its diffusion through
>: society started in Europe in the 16th century. This is from "The
>
>I sort of meant that Calculus was invented say about 300 years before the
>word "technology" so if the word had existed when calculus was invented,
>maybe it would have been used to describe something like "Mathematica
>Thechnologitica" or something like that....
Evidently not true. Calculus was invented in the 17th century by Newton.
Another poster has stated that the OED dates "technology" to 1614, so it
appears that the word "technology" predates calculus.
>
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-29 0:00 Software Engineering and Dreamers Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Kevin Cline [this message]
1997-05-30 0:00 ` system
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
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1997-05-28 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-05-27 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-05-26 0:00 tmoran
1997-05-26 0:00 tmoran
1997-05-15 0:00 Any research putting c above ada? Jon S Anthony
1997-05-19 0:00 ` Michael Norrish
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Michael Norrish
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-22 0:00 ` Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research putting c above ada?) Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-22 0:00 ` Software Engineering and Dreamers Nick Roberts
1997-05-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-26 0:00 ` David Ray
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-24 0:00 ` jason hummel
1997-05-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-25 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Dann Corbit
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-26 0:00 ` tstcroix
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-27 0:00 ` system
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Rich Miller
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Matthew S. Whiting
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-06-03 0:00 ` John Winters
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Joe Charlier
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-04 0:00 ` John Winters
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Volker Hetzer
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-11 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1997-06-11 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Jason Shankel
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <19970606.49CA70..12B91@ae124.du.pipex.com>
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-06-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-10 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Ed Prochak - Woodland Consultants
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew S. Whiting
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Joe Charlier
1997-06-04 0:00 ` S. Norby
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Mark Allen Framness
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Mark Allen Framness
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-24 0:00 ` Bill Anderson
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