On 18-10-2010 10:23, Invisible wrote:

>> A problem that is not entirely solved even today. Haskell and other
>> languages try to deal with it by restriction to a a paradigm that is
>> closer to math than the imperative way of thinking. The downside of that
>> is that problems that are easier solved in another paradigm become more
>> complicated. Perhaps there are also people working on extending maths to
>> include time-dependent behaviour.
>
> I think that "maths" has "included time-dependent behaviour" since at
> least when Sir Isaac Newton formulated his Laws of Motion. :-P

No, but you knew that.

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