[34S] Proposal for Entry RPN mode with dynamic stack

[Thomas Klemm]

(03-03-2015 07:56 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  RPN would just drive a mathematician crazy...

Yeah, yeah, ...

• In Homage to Peter Henrici
• Mathematics Written in Sand
  

Cheers
Thomas

[Mark Hardman]

(03-03-2015 04:22 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(03-03-2015 07:56 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  RPN would just drive a mathematician crazy...

Yeah, yeah, ...

• In Homage to Peter Henrici
• Mathematics Written in Sand
  

Lord I'm glad I have him in my killfile.

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(03-03-2015 06:18 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:  

(03-03-2015 04:22 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  Yeah, yeah, ...

• In Homage to Peter Henrici
• Mathematics Written in Sand
  

Lord I'm glad I have him in my killfile.

I am considering to follow you.

[rprosperi]

(03-03-2015 07:30 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  I am considering to follow you.

Reading the initial comments, I thought to suggest donning a suit of asbestos, but then thought - What the heck, I'll just watch from here...

Marcus - It can be hazardous to generalize about most things, but certainly about RPN or mathematicians. But never, ever, about both at once. At least not here.

[MarkHaysHarris777]

(03-03-2015 08:09 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Marcus - It can be hazardous to generalize about most things, but certainly about RPN or mathematicians. But never, ever, about both at once. At least not here.

Quite true. ... its all good, all of it was tongue in cheek and meant as only lite-hearted fun, and of course from the only vantage point I have -- my own simple opinion. :-)

To make things worse... I'm totally Divergent! I never really came to a formal conclusion myself (about myself even) whether I am an engineer who loves mathematics, or whether I am an enthusiastic mathematician who loves to dabble in engineering (its so confusing, which of course is what makes it all so exciting)!

Cheers,
marcus

[Thomas Klemm]

Quote:How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

-- Aspects of the Novel, by E. M. Forster

[Mark Hardman]

(03-04-2015 10:43 AM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

Quote:How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

-- Aspects of the Novel, by E. M. Forster

Discovery Writing and the so-called Forster Quote

[From the article]

Quote:But because this quote is a kind of touchstone for what we mean when we say ‘discovery writing’, I’ve made the effort to track it down. It seems to come, as I’ve said, from Aspects of the Novel. Forster had been critiquing Gide’s sense that a novel should not be planned. Forster’s words are sarcastic, and put Gide’s ideas into the mouth of an uneducated “old lady”, a “distinguished critic” who has no “understand”[ing] of “what logic is”:

“Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide – that old lady in the anecdote who has accused her nieces of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. “Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!” she exclaimed. “How can I tell you what I think till I see what I say?” Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was passée; she was really more up-to date than they were.” (Forster, 1927: 71, emphasis mine)

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Forster, then, was not an exemplar of discovery writing, as many people now assume, but was an early critic.

Let everyone draw their own conclusions.