On 19 April 2010 20:29, Michael Haupt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Igor, > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> Computer always 'knows' what next operation it going to perform, and >> don't need to use any precedence. > > ... enter quantum computers. :-P > let me rephrase that: by building any machine, we using a certain set of principles, on which it will function. So then, we could _predict_ how it will behave, if we provide a set of instructions. That's why i put 'knows'. Computers, obviously don't know anything. Knowledge comes from the fact, on which principles you built a machine, so you can predict what will happen if you instruct it to do one or another operation.
>> If we ever will meet aliens, then to start communicating we, no doubt, >> should use an universal rules & semantics, which can be interpreted >> without any chances to be ambiguous. And precedence, obviously is not >> a univesal :) > > Hear, hear! > > Best, > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
