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Author: Garry HodgsonGarry Hodgson Date: Sep 26, 2007 10:03
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Date: Sep 26, 2007 14:31
On 26 Sep., 19:03, Garry Hodgson sage.att.com> wrote:
Oh boy. This guy is so utterly confused that clarifying all his
misconceptions and false premises would take a week. He cannot even
tell functional programming from message passing concurrency to start
with.
- Andreas
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Author: Garry HodgsonGarry Hodgson Date: Sep 26, 2007 15:01
rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de wrote:
> Oh boy. This guy is so utterly confused that clarifying all his
> misconceptions and false premises would take a week. He cannot even
> tell functional programming from message passing concurrency to start
> with.
i gets better. if you look at his website, rebelscience.org, you'll find diatribes
exposing "voodo science" ("science" to you and me). he also reveals that
the principles of artifical intellignece and particle physics were secretly
encoded in the books of the Old Testament.
----
Garry Hodgson, Senior Software Geek, AT&T CSO
nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.
do something.
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Author: Markus E LMarkus E L Date: Sep 26, 2007 16:27
Garry Hodgson wrote:
> rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de wrote:
>
>> Oh boy. This guy is so utterly confused that clarifying all his
>> misconceptions and false premises would take a week. He cannot even
>> tell functional programming from message passing concurrency to start
>> with.
>
> i gets better. if you look at his website, rebelscience.org, you'll find diatribes
> exposing "voodo science" ("science" to you and me). he also reveals that
> the principles of artifical intellignece and particle physics were secretly
> encoded in the books of the Old Testament.
Ooh, one of those. Me and a friend are collecting them. Thank you for
this rare specimen.
Regards -- Markus
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Author: Andrew SmallshawAndrew Smallshaw Date: Sep 27, 2007 12:41
On 2007-09-26, Garry Hodgson sage.att.com> wrote:
Hmm. The very first argument I encountered was concerning values
vs variables. Consider the following SML session:
- val constant = 1;
> val constant = 1 : int
- fun add_constant n = n + constant;
> val add_constant = fn : int -> int
- add_constant 2;
> val it = 3 : int
- val constant = 4;
> val constant = 4 : int
- add_constant 2;
> val it = 3 : int
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Author: Jon HarropJon Harrop Date: Sep 28, 2007 02:24
Markus E L wrote:
> Garry Hodgson wrote:
>> i gets better. if you look at his website, rebelscience.org, you'll find
>> diatribes
>> exposing "voodo science" ("science" to you and me). he also reveals that
>> the principles of artifical intellignece and particle physics were
>> secretly encoded in the books of the Old Testament. >
> Ooh, one of those. Me and a friend are collecting them. Thank you for
> this rare specimen.
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Author: Markus E LMarkus E L Date: Sep 28, 2007 02:59
Jon Harrop wrote:
> Markus E L wrote:
>> Garry Hodgson wrote:
>>> i gets better. if you look at his website, rebelscience.org, you'll find
>>> diatribes
>>> exposing "voodo science" ("science" to you and me). he also reveals that
>>> the principles of artifical intellignece and particle physics were
>>> secretly encoded in the books of the Old Testament. >>
>> Ooh, one of those. Me and a friend are collecting them. Thank you for
>> this rare specimen.
>
> Interestingly, Wikipedia deleted all references to my PhD work on wavelets
> because I am a "crank" and my work is "not notable" but they kept Gene
Allow me, in all friendship, to contradict here: WP very probably
deleted for two reasons:
(a) The percieved it as self promotion from your side (Mind, you,
_perceived_, no need to discuss this here).
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Author: namekuseijinnamekuseijin Date: Sep 30, 2007 16:41
On Sep 27, 4:41 pm, Andrew Smallshaw sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:> - val constant = 1;> val constant = 1 : int
> - fun add_constant n = n + constant;
>> val add_constant = fn : int -> int
> - add_constant 2;
>> val it = 3 : int
> - val constant = 4;
>> val constant = 4 : int
> - add_constant 2;
>> val it = 3 : int
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> When you are able to explain this and 101 other similarly trivial
> examples you may be in a position to give some kind of informed
> comment on the subject.
you're kidding, right?
add_constant 2 is 3 because the function captures the lexical
environment where it was defined. In that lexical environment,
constant was defined as 1.
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