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From: "Chad  R. Meiners" <chad.rmeiners@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 28 Mar 2005 17:09:18 -0800
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Jerry Coffin wrote:

> If I ever teach a class,

If you teach a class the way you argue in newsgroups, your students
would not approve.  You would frustrate them because you would be
putting words in their mouth and insulting them instead of listening to
what they are saying, and you would be ignoring arguments that show you
are error instead of admitting error and going back to find the truth.

> anybody who tries to abuse Turing completeness like this

I haven't abused the definition of Turing completeness.  I was making
as comment how your statement

> >You clearly don't understand even the simplest logic. Being able to
> >do all the same things directly implies having similar capabilities.


didn't address what Jayessay was talking about.