Re: CHAT: proramming langs, was Re: CHAT: OS pain

Brook Conner <nellardo@...> wrote:
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> Sure, most PLs support some form of mathematical expressions, but even
> those have little to do with *algebra*
    Well, n-bit bit maps in C are isomorphic to a 2^n element Boolean
algebra.  In addition, addition on a numeric data type can be treated as =
an
Abelian group, and multiplication as a field, even though they're not =
really
(due to overflow considerations).

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
                  http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
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