From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: SI Units - has Ada missed the boat?
Date: 24 Jul 2007 09:59:32 GMT
Date: 2007-07-24T09:59:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfabjc4.gel.Colin_Paul_Gloster@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1185216229.18184.19.camel@sonnenregen
On 2007-07-23, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus+rm.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
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|"[..] |
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| In fact, I think that many problems in programming |
| with number types have origins in the tempting |
| similarity of ASCII symbols for computer arithmetic |
| and mathematical expressions on paper. |
| [..]" |
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You are too kind. Within the last twelve months, it was revealed in a
two part article in "C Vu" in which given answers to a programming
quiz conducted at a recent conference of the Association of C & C++
Users were summarized, that many (a minority, but still many)
programmers were unaware that * has higher precedence than binary +. I
am not kidding.
Sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-08 15:13 SI Units - has Ada missed the boat? Martin
2007-07-10 5:54 ` ME
2007-07-18 7:11 ` kevin cline
2007-07-18 8:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-07-23 5:29 ` kevin cline
2007-07-23 18:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-07-24 9:59 ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
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