Re: Natural language programming?

From: Arthur J. O'Dwyer (ajo_at_nospam.andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:25:19 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Roger Johansson wrote:
>
> "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I can't resist playing a bit of devil's advocate.
> >
> >Understood; I merely play the role of devil's devil's
> >advocate, then. :-)
>
> And I AM the devil :-)
>
> For some reason I cannot reply to what is written in one group of
> people in that same group of people, but I can reply in another group.
>
> The real replies for this group will only be told in a group of
> siberian nomads in a tent in Yakur at the Kolyma river.
>
> But here is an answer to another group, somewhere in the world,
> published only here:

Indeed. It doesn't seem to be related to the topic of this
newsgroup at all, let alone the topic of this particular
thread.

> There is a problem. Real world computers are polled, not event driven.
> (except for hardware-interrupted microcontroller circuits, but it
> doesn't work like that in our normal computers)

I just wanted to point out that on the hardware level, *everything*
is event-driven, by definition. Hardware signals are physically
tied to physical "events." The fact that most PCs and mainframes
stick a clock on top of that framework doesn't change the underlying
reality. </advocate>

[snipped ...interesting... diatribe on violence in society]

Also, I think the psychiatrists call that "projection."
Nobody is trying to hurt you. Not via Usenet, anyway.

-Arthur

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