Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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From: robin on 21 Apr 2010 21:39 "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote in message news:4bcb3e14$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice(a)news.patriot.net... | In <4bc97500$0$78577$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/17/2010 | at 06:43 PM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: | | >Had you actually read what I wrote in my first post in this thread, | | I did; it was both irrelevant and unsubstantiated. You're wrong on both counts. | >you would have comprehended that I said "first IMPLEMENTED in machine | >code" | | See above. | | >And I twice substantiated my claim. | | No; you neither identified the algorithms to which you were referring What don't you understand about "General Interpretive Programme". That's the algorithm. It's the one I indentified. Four times now. nor | demonstrated that they had not previously been implemented on, e.g., dead | trees, mechanical calculators. That's irrelevant. But if you want an example of that, try computer-produced music.
From: Gary L. Scott on 23 Apr 2010 20:18 On 4/23/2010 6:25 PM, Sjouke Burry wrote: > Peter Flass wrote: >> J. Clarke wrote: >>>> 4. Random number generation. >>> How were random numbers generated before computers? Did they not have >>> viable algorithms for the purpose? >> >> I think the "Chem Rubber Bible" has a table of random numbers you can >> use; just pick a spot to start. OTOH, that begs the question of how >> they were generated in the first place. I have visions of a roomful of >> people flipping coins. > > Just take any bad quality resistor, zenerdiode, or a number > of other electronic components, amplify the noise, and use it > with a bit of hardware to produce an endless stream of random numbers. > No computers needed. Excellent time to trim nonessential newsgroups
From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 23 Apr 2010 20:30 In comp.lang.fortran Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote: (snip) > Just take any bad quality resistor, zenerdiode, or a number > of other electronic components, amplify the noise, and use it > with a bit of hardware to produce an endless stream of random numbers. > No computers needed. Well, you need at least some digital logic to convert it into a number. There is a paper by intel on their design for a random number generator based on such noise sources. -- glen
From: Richard Maine on 23 Apr 2010 21:05 Gary L. Scott <garylscott(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Excellent time to trim nonessential newsgroups That would be all of them in this case. :-) -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Shmuel Metz on 24 Apr 2010 22:43
In <4bd19a2b$0$895$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/23/2010 at 05:29 PM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: >No it isn't. When you deny that important numerical algorithms were developed in a particular language, how is the dispute not about the development of algorithms? >But if you want original development, try >But if you want original development, try You still are doging the point in dispute. Nobody claimed that everything was developed in Algol, that most algorithms were developed in Algol or that Algol was the first language to be used to develop algorithms. You're attempts to change the subject remind me more and more of your friend David Frank. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org |