Timothy Sutter
8/19/2011 11:21:00 AM
> > 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"