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Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup?

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup?
Date 2021-06-26 22:13 +0200
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On 26/06/2021 19:54, Peter wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>> On 26/06/2021 17:18, Peter wrote:
>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> Andrea Croci <andrea.croci@gmx.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Not that there is a lot of activity about computer programming here,
>>>>> but nonetheless...
>>>>
>>>> I suspect there is little activity in part because of the junk. 
>>>> Someone
>>>> looking at the group might think it's dead.  You can't ban anyone
>>>> from a
>>>> public Usenet group and their provider won't do anything so the best
>>>> plan of to filter them out.
>>>>
>>>> And then there has to be some other content.  Making interesting posts
>>>> is the best way to revive a group, but I can't come up with anything!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Here's a question.  I hope an answer or two might be interesting.
>>>
>>> Why, if at all, should I learn miniKanren?  I know nothing about it
>>> apart from that it exists.
>>>
>>
>> You are not giving us much to go on.  There are a great many languages I
>> know /almost/ nothing about, but off-hand I can't think of any where the
>> only thing I know is the name!
>>
> 
> Well now, Mr Brown...
> 
> I don't now remember how I came upon MiniKanren but one of the first
> things I read about it was the wikipedia article
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniKanren
> 
> which, early on, has a link (supposedly) to something called relational
> programming.  But of you click on that link you'll find that it
> redirects to the article on logic programming.  I know, more or less,
> what logic programming is, but I am left in the dark about relational
> programming.
> 

Without looking anything up (including that link), because guessing is
more fun, I think perhaps Prolog would be "relational programming".  I
haven't looked at Prolog for over 30 years, and that experience was
limited to a couple of afternoons messing around with it as a teenager,
so I could be wrong.

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Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Andrea Croci <andrea.croci@gmx.de> - 2021-06-26 15:24 +0200
  Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-06-26 15:29 +0100
    Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-06-26 16:18 +0100
      Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-26 19:19 +0200
        Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-06-26 18:54 +0100
          Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-26 22:13 +0200
  Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-06-27 08:22 +0100
  Re: Can these idiots be banned from this newsgroup? Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2021-07-01 20:03 +0100

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