00001 #include "MusimatTutorial.h" 00002 MusimatTutorialSection(B0100) { 00003 Print("*** Introduction to Musimat -- The programming language for \"Musimathics\" ***"); 00004 /***************************************************************************** 00005 00006 Introduction to Musimat -- The programming language for "Musimathics" 00007 00008 Adapted from "Musimathics Volume I" Appendix B 00009 Published by the MIT Press 00010 00011 © 2006 Gareth Loy 00012 00013 00014 Mathematics is the music of reason. 00015 -James J. Sylvester 00016 00017 B.1 Musimat 00018 00019 Why did I invent a new programming language when there are so many excellent ones already 00020 available? The problem is that most programming languages are more general-purpose than is 00021 required for the relatively specialized purposes of this material, and a proper introduction to such 00022 a general-purpose language would lead the discussion too far afield. I decided it would be of more 00023 service to readers to specialize the language so that its features would match the examples in this 00024 book as closely as possible. That way, the focus would remain on the subject being coded rather 00025 than on the language being used to code it. 00026 00027 Nevertheless, Musimat is similar to other procedural languages such as C or C++ (see Stroustrup 00028 1991), so if you already know one of these, it should be easy to pick up Musimat. If you don't 00029 know any programming language, learning one should be easier after you learn Musimat. 00030 I present everything you'll need to know about Musimat in the following sections. 00031 00032 NOTE: In fact, this version of Musimat is implemented in C++. 00033 00034 *****************************************************************************/ 00035 } 00036 00038 /* $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2006/09/05 06:32:24 $ $Author: dgl $ $Name: $ $Id: B0100.cpp,v 1.2 2006/09/05 06:32:24 dgl Exp $ */ 00039 // The Musimat Tutorial © 2006 Gareth Loy 00040 // Derived from Chapter 9 and Appendix B of "Musimathics Vol. 1" © 2006 Gareth Loy 00041 // and published exclusively by The MIT Press. 00042 // This program is released WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 00043 // warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 00044 // For information on usage and redistribution, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL 00045 // WARRANTIES, see the file, "LICENSE.txt," in this distribution. 00046 // "Musimathics" is available here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10916 00047 // Gareth Loy's Musimathics website: http://www.musimathics.com/ 00048 // The Musimat website: http://www.musimat.com/ 00049 // This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License 00050 // available here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 00051
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