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- From: dan@BofA.com (Dan Brockman)
- Subject: Re: Godel's Proof (was Re: Software design =/= Programming)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.052153.1135@BofA.com>
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- References: <LOEGEL.92Nov9134531@fegatello.ssc.gov> <BxHz2v.EK4@sci.kun.nl> <4002@eastman.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 05:21:53 GMT
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Godel's Proof (was Re: Software design =/= Programming)
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- In article <4002@eastman.UUCP> vec@alnitak.Kodak.COM (Vance Cochrane) writes:
- >In article <BxHz2v.EK4@sci.kun.nl>, hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
- >>In <LOEGEL.92Nov9134531@fegatello.ssc.gov> loegel@fegatello.ssc.gov (George J. Loegel) writes:
- >>>From the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Science and Technology:
- >>>Godel's Proof: Any formal arithmetical system is incomplete in the
- >>>sense that, given any consistent set of arithmetical axioms, there are
- >>>true statements in the resulting arithmetical system that cannot be
- >>>derived from these axioms.
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- >WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE !!!!!
- >ANSWER:
- >NOTHING.
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- I have wondered whether there was not a fundamental problem of
- Godelian sort in C++ by treating everything as an object, though
- I've not been able to articulate my concern clearly. Something
- along the lines of C++ requiring an endless supply of keywords
- or infinitely many objects or maybe I am not thinking clearly
- about this or ...
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