Comments on: Functional Programming – lessons from high-school arithmetic

By: eccehomo

eccehomo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:35:23 +0000

A good book is Chris’s Date’s Introduction to Database Systems. It is in there that he exposed in detail the foundations of Relational Theory. Your discussion on closure is very important in Relational Theory. The sad fact is that none of today’s popular SQL-based databases are truly Relational and thus are not consistent insofar as they do not adhere to strict, rigid, and precise mathematical principles!

Posts like this should be read by any developer, even if he/she is not really interested in mathematics. After all, the whole of computing, and perhaps natural science in general, is just an offset of mathematics

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By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #105

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #105 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:16:26 +0000

[...] Functional Programming – lessons from high-school arithmetic – Andrew Matthews looks back at some basic maths and explains how it relates to Functional Programming. [...]

By: Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:55:37 +0000

Hi Johnny,

Wow. Thanks!
That’s the kind of comment I LIVE for!
I’m glad you enjoyed it.

By: johnny fry

johnny fry — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:20:48 +0000

Really, really great article. The kind of post that every time you read it, you catch something you missed before. Worth printing out and saving in the front pocket of my backpack.

Sending out to all my friends as well.

Keep’em coming…

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mein Blog » Blog Archive » Scala basics — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:35:21 +0000

[...] der negative Bereich erreicht. Dies macht (1) zu einem Funktionabschluss(Closure) Idempotenz ref call by [...]

By: Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:24:51 +0000

Hi John, this is working!

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Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for May 31, 2008 — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:19:19 +0000

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By: Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:00:43 +0000

Hi John,
thanks for the tip. I found the research for this post a LOT more entertaining than writing the post.

So, Alfred North Whitehead – does he work for Microsoft?
(joke)

I only (kinda) read one book by him – Principia Mathematica. I gave up pretty quickly after discovering Godel’s theorem… Can’t say it was the most engrossing work of fiction I ever read.

By: John "Z-Bo" Zabroski

John "Z-Bo" Zabroski — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:53:04 +0000

dude, you should definitely read alfred north whitehead’s ‘an introduction to mathematics’

By: stephengodbold

stephengodbold — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:22:55 +0000

Hey – got halfway in, decided it was too late and saved the remainder. Will definitely require another read but this reminds me of an email conversation and the subsequent reading (small amount) I did on set theory so far More comments later.