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Sun Apr 26 03:41:37 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> nonsense.
Sun Apr 26 03:41:19 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> nah - if you're using regexes you're doing it wrong.
Sun Apr 26 03:41:00 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> my first pass at a definition for a string: A string is a collection of characters from an alphabet.
Sun Apr 26 03:40:17 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> wtf is this. lisp doesn't have strings?
Sun Apr 26 03:38:38 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I wouldn't dare draw that equivalence without agreeing on a formal definition for regexes and the process in question.
Sun Apr 26 03:37:03 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> not everything is the same thing.
Sun Apr 26 03:36:57 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> regexes are regexes - nothing elese is.
Sun Apr 26 03:35:40 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> which means that as long as you live, you will not live in a clean world. << select portions of humanity have, to varying degrees created "clean" computing.
Sun Apr 26 03:34:54 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> It doesn't run on "perl" "perl" is a well specified computer program. Meat runs another separate well specified meat program.
Sun Apr 26 03:33:35 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> der fucking nonsense.
Sun Apr 26 03:33:11 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> it isn't necessary.
Sun Apr 26 03:33:07 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> analogy need not enter into the conversation
Sun Apr 26 03:32:57 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> This conversation bothers me. We don't understand how to make dragonflies, nor how the reproductive system works. We know how to write computer programs that work - the failing to do the latter correctly is a human failing.
Sun Apr 26 03:31:09 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: basic idea, perhaps, is that systems designed 'step at a time' by 'practical types' without any clear line of reason - will converge to resemble meat.
Sun Apr 26 03:30:52 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> if you're /ever/ using them, you're doing it wrong.
Sun Apr 26 03:30:41 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> we know how to write computer programs such that you don't need regexes.
Sun Apr 26 03:30:31 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> people are machines - but computer programs are not people, nor cells.
Sun Apr 26 03:30:08 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> yes...?
Sun Apr 26 03:29:49 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel this is cells.
Sun Apr 26 03:29:38 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> the reason we build abstract machines is because people are not very good at repetitive tasks.