From taral@taral.net Sat Sep 02 16:59:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 829 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2000 23:59:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Sep 2000 23:59:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cs.utexas.edu) (128.83.139.9) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2000 23:59:27 -0000 Received: from snood.cs.utexas.edu (taral@snood.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.144.81]) by cs.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA02508; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:59:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from taral@localhost) by snood.cs.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA06718; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:59:26 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:59:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: taral@snood.cs.utexas.edu To: Robin Lee Powell Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] samselpla vs. samjva In-Reply-To: <200009022235.SAA16557@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Taral On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Invent Yourself writes: > >What else do you suppose it could mean? > > Indeed. Also, this very nicely fits the computer science definition of > computation, with is defined using Turing machines, which certainly are > immaterial (they require an infinite tape :). I dunno... I think that the concept of "computer" needs to be in there somewhere. Otherwise, the words for "computer" and "computer program" are not at all related. Somehow that strikes me as wrong. Taral