{"id":484,"date":"2012-04-20T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-04-20T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:39:34","slug":"cs-question-calculus-vs-algebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/20\/cs-question-calculus-vs-algebra\/","title":{"rendered":"CS question: calculus vs algebra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been sure if calling something a &#8220;calculus&#8221; as opposed to an &#8220;algebra&#8221; is intended to communicate something important in computer science.    For example, people talk about the &#8220;lambda <strong>calculus<\/strong>&#8220;.  But they also talk about &#8220;process <strong>algebras<\/strong>&#8220;.  What&#8217;s the key property that would make some system a &#8216;calculus&#8217;?  Or is it an arbitary naming choice, just indicating the personal preference of the creator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been sure if calling something a &#8220;calculus&#8221; as opposed to an &#8220;algebra&#8221; is intended to communicate something important in computer science. For example, people talk about the &#8220;lambda calculus&#8220;. But they also talk about &#8220;process algebras&#8220;. What&#8217;s the key property that would make some system a &#8216;calculus&#8217;? Or is it an arbitary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}