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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, April 2005

The Chinese Culture Test

The things you expect to bargain for are houses, cars, consumer electronics, clothing, food… If possible, you will haggle for just about anything. Haggling is to prevent you from being cheated or ripped off. Check how Chinese you are

Can Guy Steele make a programming language suitable for math?

It seems Guy Steele’s latest effort is on a programming language called Fortress: Fortress focuses on the needs of programmers who work in mathematical disciplines and disciplines such as physics and chemistry that rely extensively on mathematics. If the language works out that would be great. While C is a great tool for programming efficient […]