[Haskell-cafe] Re: Wikipedia on first-class object

Tim Chevalier catamorphism at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 14:27:46 EST 2007


On 12/29/07, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh, Dennett isn't only source of wisdom. i proposed you this task
> because i've my own understanding of it. as i've said in other letter,
> both computers and humans may be described using mathematics and
> therefore equivalent - as far as we say about theoretical immortal
> man and Turing machine

He's not the only source of wisdom, but as a rule, it does tend to be
good to be as familiar as possible with what has been written before
on a subject that you're talking about. Isn't that one of the reasons
this mailing list exists, after all? :-)

Cheers,
Tim

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