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Re: Declarative constraints in practical terms

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:01:01 +0200
Message-ID: <du4gi5$sgf$1@emma.aioe.org>

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1141227907.113061.191620_at_t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...

> Then at the top level, what we are doing when we write software is a
> command.

We think it is a command.
The computer might think it is not. :-)

> We are commanding the computer to do something, right?

And the computer would listen. Right. :-)

>It seems it would make sense, then, to eat the elephant one bite at a
> time. Maybe? --dawn

I don't eat elephants. Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 10:01:01 CST

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