Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

Thanks, Yuvaraj. I reckon your 2¢ is worth at least 2 bitcoins! :-D December 2017! That's really timely. I recall back in the 80s a leading commentator grousing that C++ was being used for mission-critical applications before the ANSI standard had been fully worked out. Then I watched as machine

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

That's why most people give up on chatting to anyone outside their own little circle. It's one response to the challenge. And why I always felt international mathematics conferences were a waste of time (unless you were the invited speaker at a plenary session). There was nobody you could talk

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

When in grade school they called things like + and - "operators". But they never defined it. Then in trig thay had "functions", but they never defined what functions were either. Then came calculus. Differentiating and integrating were never given a group name or general classification. I think

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

Hi Ian, Have you considered looking into C++ Glossary http://www.stroustrup.com/glossary.html ? I enjoyed "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" when I was learning C++ for the first time. C++ is an established ISO standard - latest being granted in December 2017 as *ISO/IEC 14882

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

Too right, Devon. And have you explored the unicode situation with minus? Not to mention pi and mu. If programmers coded like they talk and write, planes would be dropping on our heads from all over the sky. I knew folk who'd never read a manual or an article about a novel language. And they

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

I did once ask a fellow, knowledgable programmer if the distinction between function and operator in conventional languages in fact meant "with which alphabet do you spell it?" If it's a plain old ASCII name, like "plus", it's a function; a symbol like "+" is an operator, even if both tokens

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

> it does not match my understanding of how standards bodies work However they work, they don't seem to produce a leading answer to a leading question. Before posting my appeal, I googled variants of "ISO computer terminology". I got the impression there were over 30 ISO committees dealing with

Re: [Jchat] Favorite blog shows global sea level rise per decade isoclines.

Like Fire Island here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fire+Island,+NY/@40.6999706,-73.1614613,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e81153da534b8f:0x63032a1963b35f70!8m2!3d40.6475997!4d-73.1459474 ? (In case gmail mangles this, search for "Fire Island" on gmaps.) On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:33 PM,

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

Yes - I own a copy of that very volume, purchased for me by my friend Jim Korn, for that purpose but the NuVoc detailed pages had enough of that idea that I felt no need to slavishly reproduce the older example. On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > Sandra

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

Sandra Pakin, and Ray Polivka, authored a number of good introductory & reference books for APL. Thanks for reminding me, Devon. Google (bless its little cotton socks) was most helpful. There's an online copy of the APL\360 Reference Manual here:

Re: [Jchat] Favorite blog shows global sea level rise per decade isoclines.

it has never been considerated a good idea to build on sand. On 7 Mar 2018 19:17, "David Lambert" wrote: > https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/weaker-gulf-stream-means-t > rouble-coastal-new-england > > This is the cat6 wunderblog started by Jeff Masters of wunderground, >

[Jchat] Favorite blog shows global sea level rise per decade isoclines.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/weaker-gulf-stream-means-trouble-coastal-new-england This is the cat6 wunderblog started by Jeff Masters of wunderground, bought by weather.com, bought by IBM. Soon they'll be coding in APL & j!?