Re: Next generation COBOL?

In article <dmhbka$d3n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Herwig Huener <Herwig.Huener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>Another example might be jokes, where the last few words do a
>re-semantic on the entire text of the joke, and of course a set of some
>optimization problems out of which you mentioned the traveling salesman.

Leaving aside the aspects of humor dictated by a given society... for some
reason I now think of a punch-line of 'Norwegian flat-bread? I thought it
was a box of suppositories!'

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>Always the same message: Nature loves Quantum Computing - but not
>bytes or bits or nands or nors or Intel-processors.

The aphorism I was taught went something like 'The universe is a very
dirty laboratory.'

DD

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