From: John Clark <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how
the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> stop using that ridiculous and meaningless art term "abstract". [...] Nothing
> is "abstract".
So you're saying that the word "abstract" should be removed from the English
language because it will never be needed?!
Except when an abstraction needs to be expressed and talked about abstractly,
without abstractions and being able to speak of abstract entities modern
information science and templatizable data structures would not exist. -Chris
John K Clark
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