[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Work on Video Games in Haskell

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 26, 2010, at 23:23 , C. McCann wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net>  
> wrote:
>>> While we can all acknowledge the technical impossibility of  
>>> identifying the original source language of a piece of code...
>>
>> Uh,
>
> ∀p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))
> is clearly false, while
> ∃p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))
> is clearly true.
>
> Natural language does a rather poor job of making quantification  
> unambiguous.


If you really want to get jiggy with the corner cases, ask what counts  
as a transformation.
/bin/cat?
sed 's/a/b/g'?
sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba/'?
unlit?
cpp?

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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