You're giving E.T. Bell's "Men of Mathematics" (almost undoubtedly your source) entirely too much credit. While a fun read, it is not a serious work of historical scholarship; rather it is targeted at a popular audience. Bell's sources on the subject of Cantor are mainly Cantor's own letters; with regard to Kronecker's alleged attacks on Cantor, much of those those letters are directly contradicted by published transcripts of Kronecker's lectures.

Certainly it is true that some of "the smart people" may have not understood Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers; Kronecker, however, surely did, and Poincare did as well. What they objected to was the use of "number" -- a term which at the time had a radically different precise mathematical meaning than it does today -- to describe such constructions.

O RLY? Where can I get me one of them?

That aside, this is a pretty decent description of what GCD is good for.

Puma was OS X 10.1.

Not really, no.

I mean, really?

Anyone who would wear a turtleneck and glasses that only cost $150 together is *obviously* not a mac user.

(I kid... sorta...)

Processor with markedly higher power draw achieves superior benchmark results. News at 11.

I had no difficulty getting my girlfriend's mini convertible home this way (about 15 miles) without any coolant at all. Didn't even run hot. /shrug, usual disclaimer about anecdotes.

Any "engineer" who doesn't figure out to just roll down the windows, turn the heater on full blast, and turn the engine off at traffic lights and downhills doesn't deserve a promotion, anyway.

If "the people" (meaning 50% of the minority of the population that actually turned out to vote) passed a ballot initiative that condemned you to death, would you accept their judgement?

No, we can't.

Using the ballot proposition system to take explicitly take rights away from a minority group, when those rights pose no risk to anyone else's rights and are allowed to the majority is wrong, unethical, and of questionable legality.

Funding groups that want to do so, on the basis of delusions in which an imaginary man in the sky tells you that said minority group is evil, is hateful at best, but probably more aptly described as psychopathic or paranoid-delusional.

Of course. But one shouldn't pretend that this makes the language one has chosen somehow better suited to the task than the language another person would choose, even if their solution looks unintelligible to you. It just means that you don't understand the way the other person did it.

How about:

#include <clapack.h>
dgesdd( argument list );

This sort of thing is a feature of libraries, not an inherent advantage of one language.