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From: Shmuel Metz on 15 Apr 2010 20:02 In <4bc72c60$0$78575$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/16/2010 at 01:10 AM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: >On the contrary, I substantiated it twice. No, you twice made totally irrelevant claims. Nothing that you have written has any bearing on whether algorithms were developed in Algol 60, and you haven't even substantiated the claim that important algorithms were *DEVELOPED* (NOT TRANSLATED INTO) in machine code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org
From: robin on 17 Apr 2010 04:43 "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote in message news:4bc7a92c$7$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice(a)news.patriot.net... | In <4bc72c60$0$78575$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/16/2010 | at 01:10 AM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: | | >On the contrary, I substantiated it twice. | | No, you twice made totally irrelevant claims. Nothing that you have | written has any bearing on whether algorithms were developed in Algol 60, | and you haven't even substantiated the claim that important algorithms | were *DEVELOPED* Had you actually read what I wrote in my first post in this thread, you would have comprehended that I said "first IMPLEMENTED in machine code" (emphasis added). And I twice substantiated my claim.
From: Shmuel Metz on 18 Apr 2010 13:15 In <4bc97500$0$78577$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/17/2010 at 06:43 PM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: >Had you actually read what I wrote in my first post in this thread, I did; it was both irrelevant and unsubstantiated. >you would have comprehended that I said "first IMPLEMENTED in machine >code" See above. >And I twice substantiated my claim. No; you neither identified the algorithms to which you were referring nor demonstrated that they had not previously been implemented on, e.g., dead trees, mechanical calculators. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org
From: robin on 22 Apr 2010 09:20 "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote in message news:4bd01e14$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice(a)news.patriot.net... | In <4bcfaa84$0$895$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/22/2010 | at 11:39 AM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: | | >You're wrong on both counts. | | 1. You have not addressed the question of whether Algol was used | to develop algorithms. Even had you *shown* that other languages | had been used earlier or more often, that would have not addrssed | the issue in dispute. That is irrelevant. It is not what I claimed. | 2. You cited a book describing multiple algorithms; you refused to | identify specific algorithms about which you were making claims. What don't you understand about the word "Programme"? It is a computer program. "General Interpretive Programme" is the name of the program, and also, incidentally, the name of a book.
From: Shmuel Metz on 22 Apr 2010 05:59
In <4bcfaa84$0$895$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 04/22/2010 at 11:39 AM, "robin" <robin51(a)dodo.com.au> said: >You're wrong on both counts. 1. You have not addressed the question of whether Algol was used to develop algorithms. Even had you *shown* that other languages had been used earlier or more often, that would have not addrssed the issue in dispute. 2. You cited a book describing multiple algorithms; you refused to identify specific algorithms about which you were making claims. 3. You profused to show that the unspecified algorithms about which you made claims had not already been in use. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org |