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From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>
Subject: incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..)
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2003 19:01:18 +0300 (MSK)
Date: 2003-01-07T19:01:18+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1041959403.11003.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

"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.


Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia




             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-07 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-07 16:01 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch [this message]
2003-01-08 13:10 ` incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..) Dmitry A. Kazakov
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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