Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!varol
From: varol@cwi.nl (Varol Akman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Re: code formatting (even more random musings)
Message-ID: <198@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 12 Feb 88 10:23:16 GMT
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In article <54200003@hplabsb.UUCP> mohan@hplabsb.UUCP (Joseph Mohan) writes:
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>Evidently Lagache and I don't live in the same world.  The world I
>live in is full of water, living things, fractals, coincidences, and
>surprises.  Laws and patterns *enable* the Great Dance, they are a
>trellis for the vine of life, a skeleton for the playing otter.
>If I want to be creative, I can write poems, I can play musical
>instruments, I can make up stories, I can invent new algorithms and
>data structures.  I'm not so short of ways to be creative that I
>have to invent new ways of being obscure.  YES, let's be creative.
>But let's be creative in ways that aren't a burden to other people!
>>>
>
>What wonderful writing!  If you ever wrote a book, R O'K, I'd buy it
>with my eyes closed.  The best writing I have ever seen on any bboard!

Another very loud applause from this side of the Atlantic for
R O'K's (now this looks complicated :-) insistence for being
lucid !!!

To add a short comment:

The fact that mathematics is a formal system with well-defined rules
*to be followed* didn't and doesn't prevent mathematicians from
discovering beautiful theorems.