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Gregory Smith writes:
"...Huh? If I knew the values to assign the cells, then the
problem is solved and I have no need for a computer. The
computer is supposed to calculate what to put in the cells
from the governing equations. ..."
Hehehehe. I suspected that. This looks like an algorithm we
might offer up as one of comparative linguistic examples. I
don't quite understand why the dependency on what your
employer provides given the number of free or essentially so
compilers available on Pentium class machines. Heck, I would
let you use my PL/I compiler for Windows or OS/2 and let you
have the free runtime support. I don't see why have you have
to settle for some 30 x 30 compromise on a spreadsheet that
won't provide the accuracy that you desire.
"...FORTRAN, C, spreadsheets, or Octave in my case. PL/I
never made it to the VAXen or Cybers that were all over the
engineering schools in the past. ..."
In a sense this supports my position for providing something in
open source across all platforms with somewhat more than
the capabilities of PL/I. I sense that you don't like to
compromise in a solution. I agree.
I can't make the case "for" logic programming here nor can I
make one "against". We may have a "wash". However,
regardless of the "wash" situations that exist along with the
much larger "unwashed" situations, logic programming
provides no "worse" instances. Thus at the very least equal
to a non-logic programming approach, otherwise a better
approach. That alone should justify its pursuit.
The only little niggler remaining that I have is why you didn't
(or haven't) done this simple and rather small program in
Python?
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