Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
Essay:  ten_digit_algs.doc,
        ten_digit_algs.htm
M-files: M_files.zip, M_files.tar.gz
I would very much value your comments, by email to trefethen@maths.ox.ac.uk,
on the views advocated in this essay.  Please take a look at the
M-files first and run them on your computer, so that we are not just
talking of abstractions.