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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Queue
Date: 2000/04/06
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In article <8cikl8$anh$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

> It sounds like
>
> I have written this code
> can anyone tell me why I wrote it this way

This reminds me a lot of the program which made the fortune of one of
the characters in the book Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency. It
was an AI program that, given a desired conclusion, could come up with a
series of plausable-sounding logical steps to show that it was a sound
one. Supposedly the DoD bought the whole project out and used it to help
acquire SDI funding from Congress. :-)


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