From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-07-01T11:07:35-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32715299-ffe4-4341-a9da-2ef9e76768cc@b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p91wiecfu16m$.1mies3jos3qfz$.dlg@40tude.net
> Neither do I. It is a puzzling psychological phenomenon. Only professional
> mathematicians can compete them.
Ahem. It sounds like an invitation to answer. Are you good at
fencing ? OK, just kidding, eh ? Anyway. I beg to disagree: you forgot
the physicists. *They* a lot better, if not the best, in this area, by
far.
> I have several books on numeric methods
> and statistics with source code attached, usually in FORTRAN. It is
> horrifying. Many scientific papers I had time to time to review contained
> code samples. I guess they were intended to illustrate some point,
> unfortunately absolutely in vain, because even Champollion were he still
> alive, would be unable to decipher these. (:-))
You guessed wrong: the goal is to discourage people trying the code
and seeing that it doesn't work at all, except eventually with the
specific data provided to illustrate the point.
G.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-01 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 5:23 ADA made me hate programming mahdert
2010-06-30 5:33 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-30 5:42 ` mahdert
2010-06-30 16:49 ` Warren
2010-06-30 18:12 ` George Orwell
2010-06-30 6:40 ` anon
2010-06-30 19:07 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-07-01 1:38 ` starwars
2010-07-01 4:57 ` anon
2010-07-01 13:22 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 14:00 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 17:11 ` anon
2010-07-01 21:16 ` Wilson
2010-07-02 7:01 ` anon
2010-07-02 15:54 ` Non scrivetemi
2010-07-02 16:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 16:55 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-06 5:37 ` David Thompson
2010-07-01 23:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-07-02 6:07 ` anon
2010-08-20 22:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-07-02 10:45 ` sjw
2010-07-02 18:04 ` anon
2010-07-02 18:53 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-03 1:54 ` anon
2010-07-03 13:16 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-03 21:50 ` anon
2010-07-04 11:40 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-04 23:15 ` anon
2010-07-05 6:00 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-04 17:52 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-04 23:22 ` anon
2010-07-05 0:22 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-05 10:49 ` anon
2010-07-05 21:50 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-06 11:15 ` Stephen Leake
2010-07-06 12:25 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-06 19:22 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-06 20:03 ` anon
2010-07-06 19:55 ` anon
2010-07-06 22:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-07 0:10 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-08 0:23 ` anon
2010-07-09 0:14 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-03 21:43 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-21 0:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 10:05 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-20 22:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 15:38 ` Warren
2010-08-20 21:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-20 22:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-07-01 13:29 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-08-21 0:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-06-30 7:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-30 8:36 ` tonyg
2010-06-30 23:14 ` Phil Clayton
2010-07-01 12:58 ` Lucretia
2010-06-30 9:37 ` Gautier write-only
2010-06-30 17:05 ` [Ada] " Warren
2010-06-30 21:10 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-07-02 20:03 ` Warren
2010-07-06 5:37 ` David Thompson
2010-06-30 23:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-01 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 14:27 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 18:54 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 22:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 22:11 ` (see below)
2010-07-02 8:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 17:52 ` Non scrivetemi
2010-07-02 19:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-05 12:40 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-02 14:07 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-02 20:30 ` Warren
2010-07-01 23:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-07-02 7:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <11xsi9ilnamk6$.1r1kaahru68b1.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-07-02 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <u94jhtubncu$.2l0z5ep3q0kw.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-07-02 13:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 14:25 ` Peter Hermann
2010-07-02 18:51 ` anon
2010-07-02 14:26 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-02 18:56 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-21 0:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 15:51 ` Warren
2010-08-23 16:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 16:57 ` Warren
2010-08-23 20:25 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT (was: [Ada] made me hate programming) Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-23 21:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 22:02 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-24 13:32 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT (was: [Ada] made me hate programming) Warren
2010-08-24 17:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-26 12:53 ` Warren
2010-08-26 19:01 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT Simon Wright
2010-08-26 19:53 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-26 20:22 ` Simon Wright
[not found] ` <m7mkuvmw72ec.1fan4hqr668s6.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-06-30 10:00 ` ADA made me hate programming Pascal Obry
2010-06-30 18:54 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-06-30 19:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-01 5:15 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-01 13:11 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 18:07 ` Gautier write-only [this message]
2010-07-01 0:34 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-07-01 4:47 ` Wilson
2010-07-06 21:59 ` Pablo
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox