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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..)
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:10:47 +0100
Date: 2003-01-08T14:10:47+01:00	[thread overview]
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Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>>A need in a meta language indicates that the core language is incomplete.
>>Then the question is only whether this incompleteness is inherent or not.
>>As long as the former is not proved I will claim that we do not need a
>>meta language.
> 
> But it is well-known fact (from the first half of 20 century, thanks
> Godel), that every language that is rich enough is necessarily incomplete.

Incomplete for what? If a language should be complete for everything, then 
meta language is also no answer, because it in turn will be also 
incomplete.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-07 16:01 incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..) Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-01-08 13:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2003-01-08 14:35   ` incomplete languages Karel Miklav
2003-01-10 13:49     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-14  1:14     ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-14  2:20       ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-14  7:33         ` Karel Miklav
2003-01-14  8:49           ` tmoran
2003-01-14  9:03             ` Karel Miklav
2003-01-08 22:00 ` incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..) Ted Dennison
2003-01-09  6:35   ` Karel Miklav
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