From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:19:40 -0600
Date: 2002-11-07T05:19:40-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1036668002.19580.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnaskcmo.rf.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no
The word is "entropy" not "entroy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: November 07, 2002 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
> Programmer Dude wrote:
> >> Preben Randhol -------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol
> >> �.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being
> >> sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.�
> >> -- Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett
> >
> > My very favorite author and modern philosopher!
>
> I don't find him a philosopher, I just found this quote to be sadly
> true. ;-) On the other hand one could argue that since the entroy of the
> universe is increasing one need to keep using energy to reduce the
> entroy of say ones desk. :-)
>
> --
> Preben Randhol -------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol
> �.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being
> sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.�
> -- Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-07 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 16:12 Where did /= come from? Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 16:50 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-06 17:25 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07 9:31 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 11:19 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
2002-11-07 11:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 22:56 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08 9:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 9:53 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 19:35 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 17:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-06 20:17 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07 6:50 ` Matthew Baulch
2002-11-07 9:21 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 0:23 ` news.bctel.net
2002-11-08 9:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 14:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-07 15:29 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 22:57 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08 17:06 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 15:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-07 18:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
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