"So You Want To Be A Programmer?"

[Georg Wrede]

JMNorris wrote:
> BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in news:55391cb32ebb78caa9ac8a83e146
> @news.digitalmars.com:
> 
>>One of the best classes I have taken was symbolic logic (Phil 202 IIRC). 
>>I'll never know why that is a Philosophy class and not a math class.
> 
> The reason is mostly historical.  Logic has been part of philosophy since 
> the ancient Greeks, but wasn't sufficienlty well developed to be treated 
> with mathematical rigor until Frege (second half of the 19th century).  
> IIRC, it isn't until Hibert that you get logic addressed as a fully 
> mathematical subject.  Nowadays, both math and philosophy departments teach 
> logic, though with a somewhat different emphasis.  Math departments 
> generally teach it primarily at a grad student level.  Philosophy 
> departments teach it at both grad and undergrad levels.

I took a class in symbolic logic at the university. Boolean expressions 
have never been the same after that. I sure wish I'd learnt the stuff 
much earlier.