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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179823902 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <01bb8df1$2e19d420$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bb9f26$36c870e0$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> "Tim Behrendsen" writes: > It is similiar to the difference between summation and integration; > one consists of individual sums, the other of an infinite number > of sums. However, both are fundamentally adding. Well, that is one option. But as "everyone" knows, the FTC allows you to compute definite integrals without taking the limits of sums or using summations at all. Incidentally, none of the standard definitions (Riemann Sum or something) uses "an infinite number of sums". Can't - infinity is not part of the real numbers... > Procedural means "has a procedure." Nothing in the real world > is not procedural, but we can *express* algorithms non-procedurally. > This is where the term is useful. The term is meaningless when it > comes to implementation. Well, at this point, I'd have to say that your _definition_ has become meaningless, or at the very least, empty of content. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com