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Re: in the garden

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> > Timothy Sutter wrote:
> >> Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
> >> Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
> >> When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
> >> Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
> >> The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
> >> The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
> >> The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
> >> When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!

Spanky wrote:
> I like eating.

> Eating computer languages.  I eat them a lot.  I eat a lot.  Because
> alot is not a word, otherwise isnot could be a word.  It probably is in
> some computer languages though.


words don't have to be written

but, you probably wouldn't say that "yard"

is a different word depending on regional accent

but, if you never rote it down, you may think so.


computers are like really really literal children.

you have to give them explicit instructions with

esssentially a one to one correspondence between

character set and elicitted response.


if you tell a machine that sometimes "blue"

means the color of a duck's neck or a jays tail

and sometimes, means a type of 'mood'


_it_ may tend relay a message back to you,

 that a blue jay is always sad.



"isnot" can be interpretted by a machine to 'mean'  +STOP+

if you instruct it that it means +STOP+ always


and, you instruct it, in what manner it must always react

when +STOP+ is placed in its path of interpretation.



like, you can't -just- tell 'it' that "isnot" means STOP


you also have to 'tell' 'it' what to do when it comes across STOP


cuz, 'it' could 'see' STOP, and keep right on going...


"ain't that right, Uh Huh?"


"uh huh"

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Re: in the garden Spanky <Spankme@noway.com> - 2011-08-17 16:17 -0500
  Re: in the garden Timothy Sutter <a202010@mail.com> - 2011-08-19 07:21 -0400
    Re: in the garden Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-19 09:43 -0700
      Re: in the garden Timothy Sutter <a202010@mail.com> - 2011-08-19 13:30 -0400
        Re: in the garden Timothy Sutter <a202010@mail.com> - 2011-08-19 14:04 -0400
        Re: in the garden gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-08-19 18:04 +0000
          Re: in the garden Timothy Sutter <a202010@mail.com> - 2011-08-19 14:33 -0400
        Re: in the garden Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-19 12:28 -0700

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