<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Jethro Carr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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And I agree - take this nonsense off-list, we have already established<br>
that the term is OK to use and I'm sick of reading and having to respond<br>
to these damn emails.<br>
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I'm not saying that people should never discuss these sorts of issues on<br>
this list, but I think we've had enough discussion regarding this issue.<br></blockquote></div><br>I agree with the points Daniel has made. I think that dismissing them as "nonsense", and unilaterally declaring "we have established" and "we've had enough" is going a little bit too far.<br>
<br>I find the ire directed at a mildly-phrased suggestion quite puzzling.<br><br>I know a lot of people on this list will have admired Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel Escher Bach at some point -- perhaps you might enjoy this other work of his:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html">http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html</a><br>