DIP80: phobos additions

Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 11 18:48:48 PDT 2015


On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 00:51:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Perhaps you've never worked with incompetent programmers (in my
> experience, >50% of the professional workforce).
> Programmers, on average, don't know maths. They literally have 
> no idea
> how to simplify an algebraic expression.
> I think there are about 3-4 (being generous!) people in my 
> office (of
> 30-40) that could do it properly, and without spending heaps of 
> time
> on it.

But you don't think you need to look up to programmers who are 
not able to quickly simplify an algebraic expression? :)

For example, I'm a little addicted to sports programming. And I 
could really use matrix and other math in the standard library.


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