Re: It has been done before

På 30 Jan 2006 15:47:38 -0800, skrev randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


Rod Pemberton wrote:

"...there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself;
another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither
comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most
excellent, the second is good, the third is useless."

Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 22


I think Randall needs to take some time to consider his audience he has been
preaching to for two? three? five? years...

Rod Pemberton 

I tend to be aghast at what others fail to comprehend, even when the
mathematical proofs are there for them to look at. For the life of me,
I cannot understand, for example, why someone will continue to argue
that a perfect disassembler is possible when the impossibility of this
was proved a long time ago and the idea has been accepted for so long.


Except *nobody* has ever "argue(d) that a perfect disassembler is possible"

I guess that sense I fall into the third category myself since I can't
comprehend such a reluctance to accept the facts.  Perhaps you could
enlighten me?


You are the only one for having escaped this fact I stated above.


Oh well...
Cheers,
Randy Hyde


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