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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:01:46 +0200
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Date: 2013-05-10T16:01:46+02:00
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Le Fri, 10 May 2013 15:54:40 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:
>>> Human intervention is needed to handle the semantics, not because of=

>>> multiplicity of implementations. You could choose them randomly.
>>
>> You can't choose randomly, the program must have runtime properties a=
s
>> well.
>
> The only properties a program must have are derived from its semantics=
,  =

> per definition.

The time required for a computation, the memory used, are not part of th=
e  =

semantic. Computational complexity is not semantic.

>>> That won't work. If you can derive the program (in the object langua=
ge)
>>> you don't need the object language anymore.
>>
>> You really can't say =E2=80=9Cit won't work=E2=80=9D, since there are=
 people who already
>> do this,
>
> That is their problem. People do crazy things all the time.

What's crazy with this?


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity