Re: C-Programming

From	JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: C-Programming
Date	2014-12-20 06:57 +0000
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Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> wrote:
> On 2014-12-19, Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> writes:
>>> Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>>> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> writes:
>>>>> Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> <<snip>>
>>
>>>> Usually I am wary when someone says some approach is "naturally"
>>>> one thing or another.  Often something seems natural only because
>>>> it's how it was first learned or what someone is used to.  One of
>>>> the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman,
>>>> thought there is value in being familiar with different ways of
>>>> looking at the same picture (or theory, or problem, whatever),
>>>> and to some degree as many different ways as you can.  I am
>>>> inclined to side with this viewpoint.
>>>
>>> Sure, beauty/elegance/etc is in the eye/mind of the beholder.
>>>    Physics looks at this kind of thing from a slightly different
>>> perspective (I note you're from cal tech, and so would naturally
>>> cite Feynman; [snip]
>>
>> My comment about Feynman is prompted by later reading of the
>> Feynman biography written by James Gleick;  I didn't have much to
>> do with Feynman (or physics really, beyond the two years of
>> required physics classes) while I was a student.  If you haven't
>> read Gleick's book, I thoroughly recommend it.
> 
> The quality of any discussion will be improved by a citation of one of
> the greatest minds ever. His own books are well worth reading, even
> if comprehension can be a challenge. I am neither mathematician or
> pysicist but consider my life greatly improved by the works of Feynman.

For people interested in this kind of stuff, but without the
prerequisites for rigorous discussion, I always (absolutely
and invariably always) recommend Feynman's
 http://www.amazon.com/The-Character-Physical-Modern-Library/dp/0679601279
And I'm seeing from google that there's apparently a youtube video
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
of his public lectures on which the book is based (I hadn't been
aware of that before).
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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C-Programming arvindgupta01031988@gmail.com - 2014-12-06 11:09 -0800
  Re: C-Programming "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2014-12-06 11:16 -0800
  Re: C-Programming James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-06 14:46 -0500
    Re: C-Programming Kleuske <kleuske@nowhere.net> - 2014-12-07 10:48 +0000
      Re: C-Programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-07 07:43 -0800
  Re: C-Programming Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-06 12:22 -0800
    Re: C-Programming gordonb.ukogy@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2014-12-19 03:29 -0600
      Re: C-Programming Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-19 01:34 -0800
        Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 10:18 +0000
          Re: C-Programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-12-19 17:42 +0100
            Re: C-Programming rouben@shadow.(none) (Rouben Rostamian) - 2014-12-19 19:00 +0000
              Re: C-Programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-12-19 20:31 +0100
                Re: C-Programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-12-19 20:42 +0100
              Re: C-Programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-19 11:54 -0800
        Re: C-Programming raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-19 11:29 +0000
          Re: C-Programming Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2014-12-20 10:22 +0100
            Re: C-Programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-20 11:48 -0800
        Re: C-Programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-19 03:33 -0800
          Re: C-Programming Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-19 04:02 -0800
      Re: C-Programming glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-19 17:28 +0000
  Re: C-Programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-12-06 21:27 +0100
  Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-07 13:07 +0000
  Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-08 01:24 +0100
    Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-16 04:44 -0800
      Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-16 15:02 +0100
        Re: C-Programming BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-16 18:27 +0000
          Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-17 01:01 +0100
            Re: C-Programming BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-17 00:23 +0000
        Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-16 16:30 -0800
          Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-17 02:18 +0100
            Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-16 18:23 -0800
              Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-17 09:59 +0100
                Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-17 08:52 -0800
                Re: C-Programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-12-18 11:11 +0100
                Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-18 09:49 -0800
          Re: C-Programming JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-17 10:14 +0000
            Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-17 14:26 +0000
              Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-17 09:13 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-17 17:34 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-17 23:26 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-18 00:21 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-18 17:06 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-18 09:29 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-19 02:36 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-19 03:41 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-18 08:52 -0800
              Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-17 23:23 +0000
                Re: C-Programming BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-18 00:02 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-18 00:15 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-18 16:37 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-18 18:08 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-19 02:40 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 07:51 +0000
            Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-17 09:07 -0800
              Re: C-Programming JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-19 04:22 +0000
                Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-19 09:22 -0800
                Re: C-Programming Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2014-12-20 02:39 +0000
                Re: C-Programming JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-20 06:57 +0000
  Re: C-Programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-15 23:53 -0800

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