Re: Declarative constraints in practical terms

"x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message news:dujbop$r48$1_at_emma.aioe.org...
>
> "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1141662296.045812.323800_at_u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> > x wrote:
> > > "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:1141230300.386065.194130_at_v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> > > > x wrote:
> > > > > "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. :-)
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I can see that perspective. We can write statements that
> complete
> > > > the machine. Snooze.
> > >
> > > Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
> >
> > I had to look that one up. "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." And yet,
> > with that, you went and did it anyway. cheers! --dawn
>
> Well, I live in the land of the dragons :-)
>
>

"Together they would travel, on a boat with billowed sail, Jacky kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail..." Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 14:55:34 CET