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Article #852Re: At Last! The voice of Reason!
From: d... David Smallberg
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 01:06
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 01:06
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In article <36...@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> d...@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
>... this reminds me of an inconsistency in
>the "everything starts a zero" people. An arch-proponent of this is
>Edsger Dykstra who insists on making statements of the form
>
> "firstly zero"
>
>which always struck me as a bit strange.
Not literally an inconsistency, since "first" and "second" are etymologically
unrelated to "one" and "two". "Third" and "three" are related, of course, so
one hopes that Dijkstra's lists are very short.
-- David Smallberg, d...@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!usc!jarthur!uci-ics!ucla-cs!das From: d...@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: At Last! The voice of Reason! Keywords: Decade,bean counters Message-ID: <30874@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 16 Jan 90 01:06:34 GMT References: <50810@bbn.COM> <1484@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <3612@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Sender: ne...@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 14 Posted: Tue Jan 16 02:06:34 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit