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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!biosci!agate!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  2. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
  4. Subject: Re: Communications of the ACM
  5. Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov18142658@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 22:26:58 GMT
  7. References: <28229@castle.ed.ac.uk> <69755@cup.portal.com> <BxxFGA.9C5@phage.cshl.org>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. Lines: 7
  12. In-Reply-To: pjm@isis.cshl.org's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:28:58 GMT
  13.  
  14. Indeed ACM has always lagged in its own application of computer technology.
  15. For example, the American Mathematical Society has always been far ahead
  16. of ACM.
  17. --
  18. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  19. *
  20. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  21.