On 1 Apr 2007 at 15:41, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)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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