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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:43:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735sgfrep.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-3260b2b3-65a7-4013-90b7-c800536e0064-1626293715992@3c-app-mailcom-bs04

Christopher Dimech wrote:

> I cannot see how we can make mathematical computations in
> code literate because mathematics is full of esoteric glyphs
> that would complicate rather than explain. Mixing everything
> together is a bad idea.

You can express math in or as text, that is what LaTeX does
for example. (All programming is or does that in one way or to
some degree or another.)

> Even if we manage to get computations look like pseudocode,
> will that aid understanding?

You can today express all computation as pseudocode or real
code, again that's not the issue.

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-14 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-05 14:37 append, push, and add-to-list Drew Adams
2021-07-05 14:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 15:19   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 16:18     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-05 16:46     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:54       ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:08         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 15:41   ` tomas
2021-07-05 16:58     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 17:21       ` tomas
2021-07-06  1:17         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:10       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:18         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:11       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:39         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 20:35           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:57         ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:16           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:56       ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:15         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:51     ` Quote by Knuth Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:06       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 21:57         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-06 22:16           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 22:26             ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-07-06 23:21               ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 16:09                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 17:37                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:41                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  3:08                       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:25                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:18                           ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 16:02               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 16:20                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 17:41                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:43             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:49               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  3:05                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  6:50                   ` tomas
2021-07-15  6:55                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  7:11                       ` tomas
2021-07-15 10:55                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:23                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:22                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:20                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:27                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 19:24               ` Jean Louis
2021-07-14 20:15                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 20:30                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-14 20:58                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 22:54                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 21:04                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 23:05                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 22:53                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  6:06                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-15  6:21                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-17 18:43                           ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-18  7:41                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 11:50                               ` Jean Louis
2021-07-18 13:17                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 13:41                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-07-18 17:57                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 23:25                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 16:27                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-20 16:39                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:58                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 16:41                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:54                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:10                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 13:54                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:37                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-18 22:34                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 22:43                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-07-14 22:31                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  2:58                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  6:43                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-18 22:14                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19  7:07                       ` tomas
2021-07-19  8:05                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-21  4:52                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21  8:55                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-21  4:28                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21  8:42                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-07-19  8:44                       ` lisa-asket
2021-07-06 21:34       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-05 16:19   ` [External] : Re: append, push, and add-to-list Drew Adams
2021-07-05 16:41     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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