Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)
Mark Janssen
dreamingforward at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 22:08:30 EDT 2013
>> It's like this. No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
>> the computers where you load instructions with switches. At that point,
>> I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit lexer.
>
> Why stop there? If you go back far enough, you've got Babbage with his
> Analytical Engine and his laboriously hand-cast analog gears.
And there you bring up the heart of it: the confusion in computer
science. thank you. Babbage's differential engine is not doing
*computation* , it is doing *physics*. We must draw a line somewhere,
because the digital realm in the machine is so entirely separate from
the physics (and even the physical hardware), that I could make a
whole other universe that does not conform to it. It is a whole other
ModelOfComputation.
Q.E.D. (Who else is going to have to eat a floppy disk here?)
> Relevant:
>
> http://www.xkcd.com/451/
*winks*. BTW, all this regarding "models of computation" and such is
relevant to the discussion only because of one thing: I like python.
I will leave that vague response for a later exercise after I get an
invite from a University (MIT?) to head their Computer Engineering
department.
Cheers,
Mark
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