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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb.
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>chris wrote:
>> What rubbish!  Computing started with maths and is a form of=20
>> mathematics.  A great deal of maths is side effect free.
>
>Computing started in the 1600s when Blaise Pascal invented
>an adding machine.

Nonsense. *Machine* supported computed started with the Abacus. At
least.

>It used side effects (movable wheels) to do its work.

Well, every calculation on modern machines causes at least one
side-effect. It moves electrons.


Vinzent.