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Isaac Asimov, in one of his essays, gave an analogy for those unfamiliar with, or perhaps frightened by the scary name of, the "complex" numbers: street address
by jejones3141 13y ago
Isaac Asimov, in one of his essays, gave an analogy for those unfamiliar with, or perhaps frightened by the scary name of, the "complex" numbers: street addresses. Should programming languages get rid of that scary name and refer to complex numbers as "addressable"?
- judk 13y agoHence why Monads have been named "Warm Fuzzy Things" in some Haskell papers about outreach.