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Subject: RE: Good programmers and assembly language (very long
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Date: 5 Apr 91 22:40:15 GMT
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Michael Rizzo writes:
>Did you start maths with a proof of why 0 + 0 = 0. No because it
>involved ideas which were too hard to understand at that age. But
>math students see the proof for 0 + 0 = 0 in the first year of their
>BSc, even though they've been using the result all their lives. Also
>some people can use 0 + 0 = 0 without ever needing to know why.

heh.

Just for the record, those proofs of "0 + 0 = 0" begin by assuming
that "+" is not addition, but something with some of the properties of
addition.  [or semantically equivalent assumptions]

Obligatory nonsense:  Real Programmers don't use assembly, they use
Machine Language Monitors (with macro support, of course ;-).

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Raul Rockwell