{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

I was able to spontaneously (almost organically) dive back into some computer programming for the "Introductory Analysis" Solution Keys PROJECT, and I sense that I may be getting back into the mathematics.  I have never stopped thinking about it, but I have been reluctant to get into formal exercises - and I have wanted nothing to do with editing and compiling code for many moons.

Well, I finished the exercise set, and I left detailed documentation about the process of writing the code from the mathematics.   The diagrams for 6 possible outcomes (2 when the triangle is right or obtuse, 4 if the triangle is acute) transform into code organically and symbiotically.

I had been discouraged, thinking I had lost all interest in this long project I had once been so devoted to.   And yet, the quality of the notes in the current volume show that my thinking is clear.   There is little room for confusion in the explanations of the code.   The C programs are elegant and to the point in comparison with the old BASIC code with its "GOTO 80, GOT 110, etc ... "

Generally, solutions attempted in BASIC in the 1980s have been written using the C programming language, whereas those solutions attempted in Pascal (in the 1980s) have been written using the C++ programming language.  I do not use a sledge-hammer to swat at flies.

Actually, C and C++ are close siblings.  One has not evolved from the other.

I thought Holden might be glad to know that I have been crawling around dragging some books around.   I carry a small pad that fits in my pocket, I use scrap paper on a clipboard ... I transfer notes.   I have even been writing in my main "diary," trying to figure out when and why I stopped "keeping track of my life" ...

It is mostly my struggles to organize my interests in literature (Madness Theory), mathematics and programming which have usually forced me to continue some kind of "Main Diary" - even if that Diary is not used daily.   I like to keep track of it "over the years" ...

There is something of the ambience of a low-grade existentialist science fiction dystopian world to my moment-by-moment existence.  To find spiritual nourishment from an old forgotten mathematics textbook with obscure computer programming exercises in it (from the 1980s) is peculiar in a world such as ours, you know, with Hollywood, Bollywood, the Olympics, American Idol, and Professional Organized Sports.