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RE: Language design values (Re: message primitive)


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Reynolds, Gregg wrote:

> I like "irreducible"; I think it can be made useful rhetorically.  Looking
> back at my original question, however, it occurs to me that it needs to be
> reworked, since the maximally simple basis would be the lambda calculus or
> something like that.  Maybe "irreducible with respect to a particular
> problem domain".  E.g., a polyline would be part of the basis of a graphics
> language, and stuff like square and octogon would be combinations.  But I
> guess a point is about the only irreducible 2D graphics primitive, isn't it.
> Never mind.
> 
    Are you sure a nand operation wouldn't be sufficient (once you build
Peano arithmetic with it, you've got all you need, right?)

Lynn



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