Re: more closed-world chatter

Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

>>>I remember reading about Prolog some years ago, and seeing:
>>>"the comma can be read as AND" and thinking WTF?! But
>>>if you have an expression like
>>>
>>> x > 0, x < 10
>>>
>>>then the comma certainly means AND.
>>
>> Not in C.
>
>Since when did Prolog become C ? ;)

     I read the sentence as not referring to any particular language. There are too many notational systems (whether programming languages or otherwise) for "certainly" to not be a red flag.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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