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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language illiteracy
Message-ID: <765@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 88 12:16:13 GMT
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Summary: What about mathematics?

In article <8088@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes:

> The problem is that people (myself when I was younger) don't see editing
> as a language, drawing as a language, mouse movements as a language (now I see).

An even bigger problem is that most people, including many mathematicians, are
unable to see that mathematics is an absolutely essential language _if you are
considering non-routine situations_.  
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet