Re:Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of nume...
by toolslive on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @09:51AM
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He (Dijkstra) even mentions this in the article:
> The above has been triggered by a recent incident, when, in an emotional outburst, one of my mathematical colleagues at the University —not a computing scientist— accused a number of younger computing scientists of "pedantry" because —as they do by habit— they started numbering at zero.
> The above has been triggered by a recent incident, when, in an emotional outburst, one of my mathematical colleagues at the University —not a computing scientist— accused a number of younger computing scientists of "pedantry" because —as they do by habit— they started numbering at zero.