Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Sean Kelly]

Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> Stephen Waits wrote:
>> This blog post just hit my radar yesterday.  Thought it was 
>> appropriate to this conversation.
>>
>>   http://ihurl.com/2f
> 
> And the full URL (I really dislike hidden URLs):
> 
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html
> 
> That was a good blog article, thanks for posting it.  I agree with a lot 
> of what he says, in particular about the way math is taught.  As I have 
> said, I didn't mind the concepts so much as attention to arcane detail. 
>  I actually do what he's been doing, that is revisiting math as I need 
> it while running across it in research papers.

Donald Knuth has a book called "Concrete Mathematics" that it fairly 
useful for programmers.  It's also very well written, which is rare.


Sean