From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) Date: 1999/02/24 Message-ID: <7b14hu$n63$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447900816 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ai4rb$5vn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aingo$orv$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ajl7i$e8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7akvap$j5t$3@plug.news.pipex.net> <7alcqe$v7g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aslft$gpq$4@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Feb 24 15:06:45 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) wrote: > Queen. And if you haven't read both Alice books as an adult, get them > and read them! You will find that they were not really written for > children, and you have to be a pretty sophisticated logician to get > some of the jokes. (Charles Dodgson also wrote a book on Boolean > Logic which was still used as a college text when I was growing up.) My graduate Algorithm Analysis textbook had an illustration from one of the "Alice" books on the front cover. Apparently Dodgson also did an analysis for the Wimbleton tennis club of the proper algorithm to ensure that the best two canidates meet in the finals of a tournament. Not only is the algorithm somewhat useful for computer scientists, but his analysis led directly to the seeding system used in Tennis and many other sports today. T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own