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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work - expression notation
Message-ID: <2309@enea.se>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:00:28 GMT
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Also sprach Dan Bernstein (brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu):
>I sure hope not. The computer treats complex types quite differently
>from integer types, and I want to be reminded of that difference when
>I'm programming. Until a computer can *do* mathematics I don't want to
>pretend that it can *talk* mathematics.

The computer treats integers and reals different too, don't
you want to be reminded by that each time you write a program?

And the day you discover you have to go from reals to complex,
do you just love having to write the code, just because the
language - either by built-ins or overloading - does not allow
you use infix notation for complex numbers? Or maybe, software
maintenance is something you never have to bother about?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se