Re: Comparing languages

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:32:12 -0400

On 16 Jul 2004 09:38:43 +0200 LEE Sau Dan
<danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in
<news:m3k6x4xuyk.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> in
sci.lang:

>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian M Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> writes:

> Brian> Here again you go too far. The claim is that associated
> Brian> with each language is a pair of numerical parameters. For
> Brian> each language it's a fixed pair. They are claimed to be
> Brian> constants in much the same sense that atomic weight is a
> Brian> constant: different isotopes have different atomic weights,
> Brian> but for each isotope the atomic weight is a constant.

> So, given two atoms: Carbon-14 (atomic number: 6; mass number 14) and
> Nitrogen-13 (atomic number:7; mass number 13). (Let's assume such
> atoms exist.) Can you now tell me, using these pairs of number, which
> atom is "more beautiful"?

None of this has the slightest relevance to the point that I
was making.

[...]

Brian

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