From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87619n8dte.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427466631 31414 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2015 14:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 15:30:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YbVH7-0000Ri-Lt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:30:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbVH6-0004HZ-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:30:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.78.69 with SMTP id z5mr22525722obw.4.1427466406524; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:26:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.164.228 with SMTP id yt4mr137614igb.2.1427466027835; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.unit0.net!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.85.213.216.MISMATCH!z20no475989igj.0!news-out.google.com!q14ni635ign.0!nntp.google.com!z20no474722igj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87619n8dte.fsf@debian.uxu> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.58.166; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.58.166 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:26:46 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211115 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103397 Archived-At: On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 6:15:15 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rusi writes: > > > On a different note... For 50 years CS has been > > living in the impoverished world of ASCII. > > This makes people think CS and math are more far > > apart than they essentially/really are. > Math and computers are not close. Yes, you can > describe computers in terms of math. But that's the > thing with math: it can model and express everything. In the world I see around me, computers are used - by shopkeepers for their accounts and inventories - by engineers to design - by artists to paint/compose etc - by scientists to do science - etc In short computers seem to be able to model and control everything. Does not seem so different from math does it? And if you see the history of CS not different at all! http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/cs-history-0.html