It's not wasted time at all. Discovering things is fun and
interesting; it doen't matter if someone else has discovered it first.
On Mar 8, 2007, at 02:51 , Dan Weston wrote:
Congratulations! You've just reinvented Church encoding.
Do not let the multiple responses of how you apparently wasted your
time reinventing (or do they mean stealing?) something Church did
long ago dampen your enthusiasm to learn exciting things and then
share them.
I for one am always eager to hear them, and am now reading up on
Church encoding so that I can sound as in the know as everybody
else on this list.
The Nobel-prize-winning Richard Feinmann loved to rederive
previously discovered things. On occasion, he even managed to
invent new physical theories by finding flaw in them. I suspect he
might well have replied to you with somewhat more encouraging words
than others have seen fit to offer.
Dan
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