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I have found an excellent resource on Object Oriented Programming.
http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp
http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp
^^^I have found an excellent resource on Object Oriented Programming.
http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp
^^^
An authority on smart software design.
(I have similar questions about people acting as if functional
programming -- '50s -- were the New Deal.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2007 14:04
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: A Must Read!!!
(I have similar questions about people acting as if functional
programming -- '50s -- were the New Deal.)
Huh. I haven't seen many people claiming Roosevelt had much influence
on computer science.
Michael said:Huh. I haven't seen many people claiming Roosevelt had much influence on
computer science.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
Slide RuleWell ... he did fund the Manhattan Project, after all. Most of the
calculations for that, however, were done by rooms full of men and
women operating mechanical desk calculators, under the direction of
John Von Neumann and others. These men and women were known as
"computers", and in many cases had college degrees in mathematics.
The genius of Von Neumann was that he saw that such calculations
could be done faster, more accurately and with lower cost
electronically. But it didn't happen until *after* the Manhattan
Project was over and FDR was in his grave.
Uh ... try integrating PDEs with a room full of people running slideJohn said:Slide Rule
Put a lot of stuff in space though!Uh ... try integrating PDEs with a room full of people running
slide rules some time.
The electronic equivalent of the slide rule, the analog computer,
was limited to a precision of at best five decimal digits, and
could integrate *ordinary* differential equations easily. But
partial differential equations are a whole 'nutha ball game.![]()
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