Re: Dealing with ad hominem attacks in comp.programming

On Feb 21, 7:18 am, "Clive D. W. Feather" <cl...@on-the-
train.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In article <qPGdneayaOiojiHaRVny...@xxxxxx>, Malcolm McLean
<regniz...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

I have read the subthreads on quan and related topics. I found them
quite  interesting, though not particularly relevant to my day-to-day
work.
How not? Surely you use variables with impicit dimensions?

Rarely, recently. Most of my recent programming has been on topological
types of matters (e.g. graph analysis) rather than relating to physical
quantities.

FWIW here is a story which I hope demonstrates some of the motivation
for quan:

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

Of course I am not claiming that quan would solve that one,but there
are of course various other initiatives:

http://xml.coverpages.org/OlkenMeasurementUnitsSyntax.html

http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/staff/olken/units/units.htm


regards
Andy Little


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