Re: Dumbing down?

Jeff Rollin wrote:
A friend (who should know better than I) and myself both agree that an
understanding of maths is necessary to be able to program.

So why do so many introductory textbooks insist that it isn't?

Or they excuse, like the elisp tutorial I just had a glance at:

| Some people dislike examples using arithmetic; however, if
| you are such a person, do not despair. Hardly any of the code we will
| study in the remainder of this introduction involves arithmetic or
| mathematics. The examples mostly involve text in one way or another.

The example introduced with this excuse is

| (defun multiply-by-seven (number)
| "Multiply NUMBER by seven."
| (* 7 number))

So the rest is more about text. Hm. My friend and I agree that you have
to be a poet to learn elisp :)

-Jens


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