On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:36:20 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> « Standard compsci » problems exclude a lot of new things for pedagogical > reasons, to stay within the level of difficulty of first-year programming > students and middle-year algorithmics students. There isn't a reason to > stay within that problem set when the goal is to compare languages for > daily use in potentially big practical projects. Standard problems also make good, familiar points of comparison. Maybe just time and space play a part. As a writer my own experience is that no matter your good intentions to be complete, one must draw a line (and if you don't the publisher will). Sadly it's the fringe cases, and the esoterica that is often most interesting. a. -- Andy Farnell <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk> _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
