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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:39:28 GMT, Ray Blaak wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

>> Any actually existing program can be expressed with single natural number. 
>> 
>> Moreover, all programs which were ever written, as well as all ones which
>> *actually* will ever be, all together, again could be characterized by
>> another natural number.
> 
> While technically true, that characterization is not really useful in terms of
> actually using such numbers, and does not really say anything at all about how
> trivial such numbers/programs are.

> In fact, the art of finding such numbers that do useful work for humans is
> hard. People who know how to do that are called programmers.

The context in which I used the word "trivial" was processing of infinite
inputs. Infinity was the scale of triviality here, not human's ability to
write, sell or use programs, whatever they might be.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de