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Quote from OA "Whitney sent Oleg and Pierre some of the C code he was working on, and notes on a problem he didn’t know how to solve. They emailed back a solut
by keithpeter 12y ago
Quote from OA
"Whitney sent Oleg and Pierre some of the C code he was working on, and notes on a problem he didn’t know how to solve. They emailed back a solution, coded in his style."
Did Pierre and Oleg think their solution out in standard code first and then make it Whitney-like, or did they find themselves thinking in Whitneyese straight away? I imagine their teacher may have noticed Whitney tendencies and that is what led to the original encouragement to make contact.
- geocar 12y agoI do not think they code in what you call "standard code", but I don't know how "straight away" it was either. Writing in a dense fashion facilitates thinking about the solution.
- keithpeter 12y ago"Writing in a dense fashion facilitates thinking about the solution." What I was thinking, thanks