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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Any easy/build-in construct to extract submatrices from larger matrix?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:20:41 +0200
Date: 2012-06-25T10:20:41+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w9ss4p56qs0g.1eabrqdc3rng9$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: js95ga$jhd$1@dont-email.me

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:54:49 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 25/06/2012 08:32, Nasser M. Abbasi a �crit :

>> I've been learning Mathematica, and I find functional programming
>> really powerful vs imperative programming, but it needs much more
>> time getting used to.
> 
> Right. Now talk about readability... Ada is for long-lived programs, and
> places readability over writability.

There is an old idea that resource consuming constructs should look
syntactically heavier than more efficient ones (when at same abstraction
level). Declarative languages frequently (always?) defeat this principle,
which results in poor coding practice.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-25  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-24  8:05 Any easy/build-in construct to extract submatrices from larger matrix? Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-24  8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-24  8:55   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-24 11:10     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-24 12:16       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-24 16:11         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-24 17:14           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-24 18:33             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-25  5:44             ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-25  6:32               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-25  7:54                 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-25  8:20                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-06-25 14:21                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-25  8:36                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-25 13:17                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-26 11:44                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-25 16:49                 ` Pascal Obry
2012-06-25 17:36                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-25 18:49                     ` stefan-lucks
2012-06-26  4:41                       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-26  7:15                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-06-26  9:51                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-25  9:33               ` Simon Wright
2012-06-26  2:48 ` Jerry
2012-06-26  4:19   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-26  7:06   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-26 12:54     ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-26 15:19       ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-26 21:14         ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-27 23:42     ` Shark8
2012-06-26  7:10   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-26 15:06   ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-26 21:19     ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-26 21:40       ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-03  4:22         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-03  8:37           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-05  1:33             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-05  7:08               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-06 23:47                 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-07  8:22                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-05 18:56               ` Adam Beneschan
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