[WikiEN-l] "So fix it." "The next day someone will fix it back."

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 1 Apr 2007 at 15:41, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is nothing even remotely potentially libelous about the  
> statement that Hofstadter, who writes about artificial intelligence,  
> had influence in computing. It's not something that should be deleted  
> wholesale except to disruptively prove a point.

In fact, he even created a couple of programming languages... to 
illustrate a point in a book rather than for actual use on computers, 
but he still did it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP

Though he personally identifies more with the arts-and-literature 
crowd than the techie-geek one, he's certainly expressed plenty of 
ideas that are relevant to tech topics, and have influenced them.


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