Larry~
On 2/6/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is mostly motivated by linguistics rather than computer science,
> insofar as types/classes/roles in natural language are normally
> represented by generic objects rather than "meta" objects. When I
> ask in English:
>
> Can a dog bark?
>
> that's equivalent to asking in Perl 6:
>
> Dog.can('bark')
Or you might think of it more as a question like "Can the ideal of a
dog bark?" the answer to which is of course "No, it doesn't exist.".
Perhaps, I am just too firmly rooted in old paradigms but I think it
is very important not to conflate the representation of a thing with
the thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MagrittePipe.jpg
Matt
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"Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory."
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