From Mathematica to Jypyter

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 10 17:32:34 EDT 2018


Rhodri James wrote:
>> I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling 
>> check as this quote shows
>>
>> "Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of 
>> private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social 
>> systems that took centuries to build."
> 
> OK, colour me confused.  The only spelling mistake I can spot in that is 
> in the subject line of this thread.  What am I missing?

Presumably Romer meant that it was a loss suffered by everyone,
but that's not quite what he wrote.

BTW, an automatic spelling checker wouldn't have helped here.
We really need to redesign English spelling so that it has
error correction built in.

-- 
Greg



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