From: munnari.oz.au!sol.deakin.OZ.AU!usenet@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: forth/fifth generation languages?
Date: 12 Aug 93 02:45:23 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24caub$2et@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> (raw)
In Article <24b6v7$lo6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
krc@wam.umd.edu (Kevin R. Coombes) writes:
>>I think, a language is not made more complex by adding a feature.
>>
>
>And so, by induction, a language is not made more complex by adding
>arbitrarily many features ? Even infinitely many ?
Correct (note that the word "necessarily" is implied by the context of the
original quote).
In a similar way, a telepone book is not made more complex by the addition
of arbitrarily many entries, merely larger.
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