Re: identifying entities across database updates

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:06:48 -0300
Message-ID: <4a5d46d3$0$23777$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>


Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
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>>>Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNenashi_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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>>>>It is remarkable that among different models of computations the
>>>>ugliest one won.
>>>
>>>     Not really.  At this level, the simplest set of axioms wins.  The
>>>ugliness is called elegance.  One builds on top of the simple to get
>>>the pretty stuff.
>>>
>>>[snip]
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>>Nah. Turing machines are fugly.

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> You are agreeing with me. Turing machines are simple. Simple
> comes at the cost of pretty. You can add pretty, but then you have
> something more complex.

Are you saying lambda calculus is more complex? Received on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 05:06:48 CEST

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