Why Aren't Computer Programming Languages Designed Better? For many digital products, poor user interface design and UX can sink an app’s fortunes even if the underlying engineering is powerful and innovative.
(Remember Color?) But what about the interfaces behind the interface, the ones that developers spend hundreds or thousands of hours interacting with while they build software for the rest of us? Yes, I’m talking about programming languages. Donald Knuth: Calculus via O notation « Mathematics under the Microscope. Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file).
Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so much serious attention being given to improvements in the way calculus has traditionally been taught, but I’m surprised that nobody has been discussing the kinds of changes that I personally believe would be most valuable. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.
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