From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aae01e0853bff01c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-23 01:46:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7007E1.10606@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Should MI be supported (was: Can MI be supported?) References: <3F67D0FA.9020506@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1064306658 24.34.139.183 (Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:44:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:44:18 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:44:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42784 Date: 2003-09-23T08:44:18+00:00 List-Id: 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.