On 01/19/2013 01:01 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
But does plot mean the curve or the whole diagram?
The whole diagram. I think this should be obvious. The point is the plot
is defined in 2 dimensions, even if the curve is only 1, and our
language reflects this.
The program structure is not
On 21/01/2013 09:47, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
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Sure I can. Just serialize the picture into ones and zeroes, as happens
all the time on a computer. The computer doesn't care that it's been
serialized, and can operate on it as is. However, the user cares about
the 2D visualization, just like the
On 01/21/2013 07:03 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
So in your mind, a 2D image is not a picture, but just a representation
of one? And if you cut that image up into 5 rows of 6 blocks, rearrange
them into 3 rows of 10 blocks and glue them together, the result is the
picture as much as the original
On 18/01/2013 23:17, Era Scarecrow wrote:
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For compatibility it does. Functions called without prototypes (even
if they are later in the same file) default to return type int too. I
can't think of any compilers that make it an error (although they should)
I guess the reason they don't is
On 18/01/2013 21:50, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
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I think you dismiss the embedded space too easily. We call a plot laid
out in 2D is a 2D-plot. You use both dimensions to specify it.
But does plot mean the curve or the whole diagram?
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Even a 2D picture can (and often is) represented as a
On Saturday, 19 January 2013 at 17:25:58 UTC, Stewart Gordon
wrote:
On 18/01/2013 23:17, Era Scarecrow wrote:
Maybe, but if you use a newline instead of a semi-colon, then
you can't put multiple statements on the same line;
A newline as an alternative to a semicolon then.
newlines and spaces
On 17/01/2013 22:01, Era Scarecrow wrote:
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As I recall for the compilers very early on, all comments and unneeded
whitespace were simply removed before compiling, leaving you with one
very long command string. The /**/ comment syntax makes perfect sense in
this case; Later tools more
On 01/17/2013 03:13 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
Mathematically, a curve is considered a one-dimensional object,
regardless of whether the space in which it is embedded has two, three
or more dimensions. (I'm ignoring fractals here for simplicity.) If you
consider the shape of the indented block
On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 19:50:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
On 17/01/2013 22:01, Era Scarecrow wrote:
// c example, originally isprime and main don't have
// return types, defaulting to int instead.
Does the return type of a function still default to int if
unspecified in current C,
On 17/01/2013 12:30, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 01/15/2013 08:29 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It's paradoxical that a 1D (i.e. linear) representation is more useful
for capturing the complexity of programming as opposed to, say, a 2D
graphical representation
Typical code is 2d because of
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 20:17:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon
wrote:
And in most languages, a program/module is essentially just a
sequence of tokens, and as such is one-dimensional. We might
look at it in a two-dimensional form, but this two-dimensional
layout means nothing as far as the
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 20:17:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon
wrote:
OTOH, because we tend to view code in a two-dimensional form,
and even rely on line breaks and block indentation to make code
readable, I can understand people thinking of code as 2D.
And there are languages in which the code
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:43:33PM +0100, Rob T wrote:
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 20:17:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
OTOH, because we tend to view code in a two-dimensional form, and
even rely on line breaks and block indentation to make code
readable, I can understand people thinking of
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 23:35:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It's easy to represent in 2D or 3D a *simulation* of program
execution (I.e., a particular instance of execution), but how
do you represent concurrent program *logic*?
For example, consider this: you have a program in which up
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