New project, "Code to Code"

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:15PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I think that *numeric* for loops indeed are frequently a bad habit.

The c style for (.. ; .. ; ..) contruct certainly is.

> This is the difference between looking at a computer as a "number
> processor" and a "symbol processor."  We often get sucked into
> thinking the former, when the latter is a much more accurate way of
> looking at things, and is sometimes more convenient, to boot.

Yeah, too much thought into "how should the program do this, where
should the data go in memory, etc" rather than "what should the program
do".

-- 
Len Sorensen
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