jack drawbridge
jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 12:18:07 CST 2012
That's how you explain your 50 hour days, John. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > Hey! I happen to be an astrological Scientologist. > > ;) > > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/27/2012 12:09 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> Reminds me of a very old joke or three, and before you reply to this, >> let's >> start a new thread on the subject. The old joke (or more accurately, >> T-shirt or license-plate sticker, is this: >> >> *Real programmers don't use compilers; they write compilers.* >> >> Which excludes me and most of the people on this list, I suspect. But come >> next U of T semester, now that I have discovered that U of T allows senior >> citizens free tuition, I plan to enroll in a course in compiler >> construction. I have a bold old concept for a programming language. >> Tentatively it's called Chomsky, and it does what you meant, not what you >> wrote. Tough nut to crack, I admit, but as I grow Older I also grow >> Bolder, >> just like a waving flag! (A song by a Canadian called K'naan, which became >> the last World Cup (football) song; see >> https://www.google.ca/webhp?**sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&** >> ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=k%**27naan+wavin%27+flag&stick=** >> H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw4Hsx**Cnfq6-**gVmRkUmlEheImZZtYWKYqyXoW1qcme** >> xYVJJZXBKSH5yfl_**5eM8j0pObbpfcbNhtxWcw-**9pNpzwEAdRfLXUkAAAA&sa=X&ei=** >> lfG0UI_kHKaFywGehoDACQ&sqi=2&**ved=0CMMBEMQNMBU&bav=on.2,or.** >> r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=**6048e1ecd4849dfb&bpcl=** >> 38897761&ion=1&biw=1007&bih=**834to<https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=k%27naan+wavin%27+flag&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw4HsxCnfq6-gVmRkUmlEheImZZtYWKYqyXoW1qcmexYVJJZXBKSH5yfl_5eM8j0pObbpfcbNhtxWcw-9pNpzwEAdRfLXUkAAAA&sa=X&ei=lfG0UI_kHKaFywGehoDACQ&sqi=2&ved=0CMMBEMQNMBU&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=6048e1ecd4849dfb&bpcl=38897761&ion=1&biw=1007&bih=834to> >> hear it. >> >> For those unacquainted with Noam Chomsky, at the tender age of 26 he >> revolutionized the study of linguistics, and a part of that project was to >> issue the death-blow to Sknnerism. Historically, J.P. Sartre did it first, >> on a different level, in The Phenomenology of Mind, but his proof was >> widely ignored due primarily to its imprecision, and it remained for the >> young Chomsky to utterly demolish and leave devastated a >> philosophy/psychology that ruled for decades, but was a stack of cards >> erected upon falsehood after falsehood after falsehood. >> >> I think that in the current situation, virtually no one gives even the >> slightest credence to Behaviorism, but occasionally I do stumble upon >> vestiges of this arcane dogma. The feeling is rather akin to stumbling >> upon >> someone who actually subscribes to Scientology or Astrology. The baffling >> thing is that now and then these people otherwise exhibit a modicum of >> intelligence. Go figure. >> >> A. >> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >