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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d14ef72cb8e7209e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-07 09:10:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: incomplete languages (was: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:01:18 +0300 (MSK) Organization: h w c employees, b f Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1041959404 14154 137.194.161.2 (7 Jan 2003 17:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] 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:32684 Date: 2003-01-07T19:01:18+03:00 "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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