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RE: Language design values (Re: message primitive)
- To: "Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds at datalogics dot com>
- Subject: RE: Language design values (Re: message primitive)
- From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at free-expression dot org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:29:31 -0500 (EST)
- cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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