Re: techwr-l digest: June 09, 2003

["Jo Francis Byrd" <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>]

I took an intro to Oracle/SQL class a couple of years ago. This happened
soon after documenting an application LOADED with function calls that needed
documenting. I'd had enough math and knew just enough to recognize the
connection between programming and mathematics: programming consists of
mathematical expressions using words instead of numbers. Yes, that's
simplified, but it explains why you'd NEVER want me to write your programs!
Being able to recognize it and being able to do it are two, VERY different
things.

Jo Byrd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hewitt, Hazel" <hazel -dot- hewitt -at- siemens -dot- com>

In response to the notion that "calculus is just a hoop one has to jump
through to get a degree"....

I wished I had studied calculus when I was struggling to complete
assignments for Pascal 101, and my class colleague, who was flying through
them, told me it was the calculus she'd studied that made it easy for her. I
don't know, but assume, that the same thing would apply to other programming
languages.



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