[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Work on Video Games in Haskell

C. McCann cam at uptoisomorphism.net
Wed May 26 23:23:33 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net> wrote:
>> While we can all acknowledge the technical impossibility of identifying the original source language of a piece of code...
>
>
> Uh,

∀p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))

is clearly false, while

∃p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))

is clearly true.

Natural language does a rather poor job of making quantification unambiguous.

- C.


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