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Re: Coming up with ideas


  • Subject: Re: Coming up with ideas
  • From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:55:55 -0700

On Jun 13, 2009, at 17:35, Graham Cox wrote:

On 14/06/2009, at 3:13 AM, Mr. George Warner wrote:

I've considered kinematics pretty much "open-source" since Newton published "PhilosophiƦ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687. ;-)

Well, this is the problem. I'm not super hot on maths, so for me to reinvent the wheel from first principles would be a long drawn-out process. For example, I found a very nice paper that fairly clearly laid out an approach to the problem that made sense to me, but didn't include much detail, and talked about "Jacobians" as if anyone would know exactly what they were and how to code them. What little code it included was in Eiffel - typical academics ignoring what people actually use in the real world.

It occurs to me that if the clever people at Apple (and NeXT) had just got their act together a *little* earlier, Newton could have published in Objective-C, instead of a dead procedural language that no one uses any more. ;)



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