Re: Science, Philosophy, Mysticism, Art, Mathematics, and Physics

From: Albert van der Horst (albert_at_spenarnc.xs4all.nl)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: 26 Dec 2004 09:43:59 GMT

In article <1Umvd.231528$HA.34538@attbi_s01>,
AngleWyrm <no_spam_anglewyrm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"stlbl" <wjgreen1@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:1102958973.712136.259420@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> In physics "=" as in A=B, means "A is directly proportional to B
>> multiplied by something very close to 1 most of the time". In computer
>> engineering it means, A is now B, until I tell you otherwise.
>
>Computer science might also describe '=' as A is copied from B.

American hacker programmer languages like FORTRAN c c++ do that.

Computer science languages like ALGOL's ADA's and PASCAL's
use ':=' (becomes).

Groetjes Albert

P.s. there is now such thing as identity, there is just equivalence
classes.
(The notion that something is identical to itself is about as
worthless as a truth can be.) 

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Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
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                One man-week to implement,
                        One lawyer-year to patent.

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