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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:15:22AM -0500, David Kramer wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, John Tsangaris wrote: > > I may say to my wife: "I heard there's a 60% chance of rain today. I > think you should bring an umbrella to work. Do you have one, or do you > need to borrow one from me?" > > In order to even START communicating things like this in a computer > language (not counting stupid cheating ways like in print statements or > nouns for variable names), you need to: > > (1) Have a class heirarchy that contains all objects in the universe, > real, imaginary, or theoretical, complete with hundreds (on the average) > of methods each. And you thought the Human Genome project was big, I think I'd have to disagree with this. Do you understand all the concepts of nuclear physics? Quantum mechanics? (etc) ( If you do, congrats *smile* ) My point being, this knowledge is unneccessary. All that IS necessary is knowledge of the data that's involved. Now, admittedly, this is still not a minor dataset but not *quite* as large. 8) -- I haven't lost my mind! It's backed up on disk somewhere... Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc colet at code-energy.com (603) 766-2208 PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D
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