D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 12/05/12 01:01, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Well that's funny, here in europe we've learned to use 'x' since
> junior school so that's more intuitive for us. :)

Dangerous to speak for a whole group, I've met plenty of Europeans terrified of 
mathematical notation.

Some people -- maybe even most people -- automatically freeze up when confronted 
with a notation that they associate with difficult stuff, or stuff that was too 
hard (or humiliating) for them at some point in the past.  Maths-phobia is very 
common in a lot of people who are able to solve the exact same problems if 
they're not presented in "maths-y" clothing.  By contrast look at how some 
mathematically gifted people freeze up in social situations!

I saw a violin-playing friend in school freeze up once when she was asked to 
sightread a short piece with chords in it.  She was adamant that she wasn't 
skilled enough to play chords properly.  Yet a few seconds' calm examination of 
the notes on the page would have revealed that all she had to do was draw the 
bow across a pair of open strings, which is something that just about every 
violinist, even a beginner, does every day without even thinking about it.  She 
couldn't see it, because "Oh my God!! Chords!!" got in the way of even trying to 
consider the problem.