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Comment Re:11? (Score 1) 302

But when management[-3] says 'forever', the meaning of forever doesn't change with the arrival of management[-2, -1 and 0]. If I hear a vendor say 'forever' I expect them to mean it.

I don't get your indexing.
management[-3] ... third to last in list
management[-2] ... second to last in list
but
management[0] ... first in list

Comment Re:Unplugging HAL non trivial (Score 1) 72

Succintly put. From the outside it smells so wrong. Plus, both crashes stemmed from a (single) faulty AOA sensor. The armchair aero engineer in me thinks that the sensor itself might not be very robust. If the sensor is essentially just a metal surface that orientates to airflow, how hard can it be to make that device basically bombproof? It either moves with the flow and the sends back its position, or it's broken.

Comment Re:It will continue to live on (Score 1) 106

Good summary of the last 20+ years! Don't forget Perl too. I got in to Perl in 2000 when I wanted to send email from a ASP web server (IIS) and discovered that I would need to pay a lot more for that extra functionality. A 25 line Perl script did the job. 25 lines as it had to establish its own port 25 tcp socket and send mail directly using SMTP dialogue. For me as a young developer it was eye-opening and I never used ASP to build anything again to any serious degree.

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 0) 167

There was a time when calculus was a peculiar puzzle

Newton needed a tool to study rate of change in physical phenomena. So he created one. That's calculus. It is firmly rooted in natural matters.

Before that, the Pythagorean Theorem.

Again, it solved a specific practical issue. So no.

Complex numbers, maybe? Or the various prime number theorems?

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