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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b9cb18e1220c16c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-07 03:20:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Where did /= come from? Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:19:40 -0600 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3DC93F8B.9E28FD15@mmm.com> <3DC9508C.E4741F2A@mmm.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1036668003 80560 137.194.161.2 (7 Nov 2002 11:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30517 Date: 2002-11-07T05:19:40-06:00 The word is "entropy" not "entroy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Preben Randhol" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: 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 > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada > >