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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: Should MI be supported (was:  Can MI be supported?)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:44:18 GMT
Date: 2003-09-23T08:44:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7007E1.10606@attbi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnbmgea2.nu.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de

Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:

>   Halting Problem
>      After proofing the impossibility of the general case, the programmer
>      denies to implement any possible solution for important, ordinary cases.
> 

Ah, but good language designers choose between an incomplete language 
and an inconsistant one.  (Unfortunately the default for poor language 
designers is to choose inconsistancy.)

-- 
                                           Robert I. Eachus

Ryan gunned down the last of his third white wine and told himself it 
would all be over in a few minutes.  One thing he'd learned from 
Operation Beatrix: This field work wasn't for him. --from Red Rabbit by 
Tom Clancy.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-23  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-16  8:16 Should MI be supported (was: Can MI be supported?) Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-09-16 11:02 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-17  3:12   ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-17  3:25     ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-17 10:36     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-09-23  8:44       ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
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2003-09-18  8:25 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-09-16 11:57 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-09-17  3:36 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-17 18:16   ` Hyman Rosen
2003-09-15 17:15 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-09-15 23:26 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-16 16:23 ` Mário Amado Alves
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