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Like "dynamic programming", it suffers greatly from the vast change in meaning of the term "programming": its meaning has become specialized to a point that it'
by taejo 8y ago
Like "dynamic programming", it suffers greatly from the vast change in meaning of the term "programming": its meaning has become specialized to a point that it's hardly recognizable as a subset of the original meaning.
But "linear programming" at least has one half that is really (still) meaningful: "linear programming" should be called "linear optimization" or something similar, but at least it really is linear.
- thanatropism 8y agoLinear programming often comes up in a mathematical context where the word "programming" is odd and can be appropriately defined (as for example in topology/analysis "balls"). Dynamic programming generally comes up in an algorithm design context where "programming" already has a dominant meaning. ---- This is a lot like a topological ball-like concept was being used in sports tactics where you have to tell soccer/basketball players to stay within a ball of the opposing forward man...