> > Wittgenstein, a hero of mine, was always in the dissenting camp,
> > thinking set theory "underpins" arithmetic the way a painted foundation
> > supports a painted tower, i.e. it doesn't really.
>
> Can you say some more about that? I thought Wittgenstein was a
> protege of Russell, and chang
On Sun, 08 May 2005, Kirby Urner wrote:
> The exalted status of sets in 1960s USA grade school math traces back to
> Ivory Tower innovations by Russell/Whitehead et al in the UK, and their
> attempt to put arithmetic on a "secure footing" using set concepts. This
> footing became even more convol
Interesting thread this, about LISP, encoding data structures and so on. I
know Python has a separate module for queues, so I'll have to revisit why
i.e. what're its capabilities over and above
appending-to-end/popping-from-front of a list.
Back to my math thread, in my opinion kids are beset wi
I hope you all know this old chestnut has been updated for Python:
You shoot yourself in the foot and everything goes so smoothly that you go
ahead and shoot yourself in the other foot, then your leg, then your torso,
and then your head.
http://linux.sgms-centre.com/howto/shootfoot.php
At 07:2
JZ> OK, OK, I'm somewhat busted. My background in AI has caused me to become
JZ> better in LISP than your average bear, but I would never claim to be a
JZ> "real LISP programmer." The absolute truth of the matter is that I once
JZ> _was_ a real Prolog programmer. If you really want to expand your
Arthur wrote:
> John writes -
>
>
>>Of course implementing something like a queue which has state
>>(side-effects) is not pure functional programming, but real LISP
>>programmers don't worry too much about that.
>
>
> John sounds like a real LISP programmer (he's being hiding that from us
>
John writes -
>Of course implementing something like a queue which has state
>(side-effects) is not pure functional programming, but real LISP
>programmers don't worry too much about that.
John sounds like a real LISP programmer (he's being hiding that from us
until now ;) - and I am interpret
