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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Value of Computer Science degree
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 18:18:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 18:18:00 1986
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>/* gds@eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) /  5:03 pm  Feb 16, 1986 */

>Apparently, this was one of those MIT Course 6 people that "can't
>program themselves out of a wet bag", because if they had learned
>anything in their theoretical computer courses, they would have known
>that such a program is mathematically impossible.

Is this notion not based on Church's Thesis, which, while there is
a great deal of evidence to support it, is not mathematically provable?

Mike Sykora