From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA01432 for caml-red; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:29:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25368 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:35:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (starvin-marvin91.zip.com.au [210.23.142.91]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eABGZL525405 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:35:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA27583; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:34:22 +1100 Message-ID: <3A0D750E.341E29F2@ozemail.com.au> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:34:22 +1100 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David McClain CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Oh, how far we HAVEN'T come! References: <000401c049f0$50220780$210148bf@dylan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr David McClain wrote: > > I just received the latest copy of IEEE Computer Magazine .. > What an opportunity lost to the ML community. Is this all the further we > have managed to come? Even sadder (IMHO): while working in a university, I was told most of the (computer science) academics believed that most of the theoretical problems of computing were solved, and the main issues were human ones. Of course, human issues of computing cannot be belittled ... but we're surely far from having even a cursory understanding of the mathematics of computing. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net