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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What evil would happen?
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> > In mathematics, functions only return single elements, which may be a
> > composite of some sort.
>
> As I have said before, one of the most fundamental mistakes made by
> academics who get involved in computing is to forget that programming
> languages are a means of instructing a computer to accomplish a task,
> not a reification of some abstract concept whose beauty and purity
> must be preserved at all costs.
>

Of course you are reading too much into what I said.  I was stating
inspiration towards a solution.
Therefore, your so called saying does apply here. ;-)

On a more serious note, if you think that academics formalize computer
science for the sake of beauty and purity, you are in a sad state of
ignorance.