Timeline for What does mathematics have to do with programming?
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| Apr 3, 2012 at 19:42 | history | edited | Bruce Ediger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added references to back up my previously bald assertions.
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| Apr 3, 2012 at 7:25 | comment | added | cl-r | @ Bruce Ediger. It is a USA problem, more weak in Europe. Market an banks want to manipulate property's laws against personnal freedom, or to spoliate biodiversity of poor countries. It is not only a mathmatic problem. OpenSource (and all such movments) have to fight against those deleterious concepts. But this battle will gain only if no emotional behaviour can be pointed out by your ennemies. If mathematic(ians) make alliance with all others humans concerned, victory is possible. -- It is just something pick out from my intuition and my logic, not from my poor ability in mathematics. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 20:56 | comment | added | Bruce Ediger | @cl-r: I was thinking of very specific examples, like the SCO anti-Linux campaign, and nature.com/news/… If we as programmers let lawyers define mathematics to lawyer's benefit, then we do all of civilization a great disservice. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | cl-r | @commentators : thanks. I use to ignore those behaviours because they are self projected misery imputed on others. --- to Bruce Ediger : Doubt sign reflexion in progress. | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 16:56 | comment | added | Charles E. Grant | @gcbenison, "Anybody who says that programming is not mathematics ... or has an ulterior motive" is a classic ad hominem attack: I don't have to respond to your argument because you are a bad person. I found it irritating because I don't think programming is math, and I think software patents are an abomination. I do have an MS in Applied Math, though whether I know what I'm talking about is certainly open to debate. | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 15:40 | comment | added | gcbenison | @charles ad hominem against whom? The original poster? I think the point about patents is insightful (even if it could have been phrased better). | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 8:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Jack | ||
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| Feb 27, 2012 at 0:57 | comment | added | Charles E. Grant | -1 for the ad hominem at the end. | |
| Feb 26, 2012 at 22:42 | history | answered | Bruce Ediger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |