Nick, I surprised that you are not more conversant in computer languages. You're always, well, niggling about the meaning of this word, or that one in the context of this or that conversation.
With computer languages, there are very few ambiguities, contextual or other wise. Kind of like mathematics. For one as worried as you often appear to be about the true meaning of the written word, I would have thought that you would positively revel at the ability to express yourself with nearly absolute crystal clarity, no ambiguities whatsoever. Could it be that you seek out the ambiguities that are ever present in human languages to give yourself something to pounce upon and worry over, and to provide the opportunity to engage in nearly endless conversations? --Doug On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Can anybody translate this for a non programmer person? > > N > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. > Daniels > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tautologies and other forms of circular reasoning. > > On 4/12/13 5:40 PM, glen wrote: > > Iteration is most aligned with stateful repetition. Recursion is most > > aligned with stateless repetition. > Purely functional constructs can capture iteration, though. > > $ cat foo.hs > import Control.Monad.State > import Control.Monad.Loops > > inc :: State Int Bool > inc = do i <- get > put (i + 1) > return (i < 10) > > main = do > putStrLn (show (runState (whileM inc get) 5)) $ ghc --make foo.hs $ > ./foo > ([6,7,8,9,10],11) > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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