Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Vella Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:49:36 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302724192 22189 65.111.164.187 (13 Apr 2011 19:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:49:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381459 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2782 Phillip makes the assertion that Excel is not Turing-complete, beginning the flame war: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/27cebe32ec304c83 Anyone with a passing knowledge of the field would know that Excel is Turing-complete because it can model Turing-complete cellular automata (for instance the Game of Life). Also see Wolfram's NKS (though Wolfram has become crank-like in other respects, he certainly knows CA). History shows that Phillip will persist despite being factually disputed. No doubt he will attempt to twist his way out of this one. See him get refuted here: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/abb343631960cdad Note his bizarre cockiness despite being totally wrong: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/da8cbb09529977d1 In order to understand who you're dealing with here, read Philip's messages in that thread regarding IEEE infinity. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.