Clippy comments on [LINK] Steven Landsburg "Accounting for Numbers" - response to EY's "Logical Pinpointing" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 15 November 2012 07:15:15PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I see -- a specification in the style of "only perl can parse perl."

All universal programming languages (assembler, C, CLIP, Lisp, Cobol, Python, Java) can parse perl as well.

Comment author: thomblake 15 November 2012 09:00:29PM 0 points [-]

All universal programming languages (assembler, C, CLIP, Lisp, Cobol, Python, Java) can parse perl as well.

Only if they implement Perl, perfectly mimicking the functionality of perl (the only spec for Perl). Amongst other difficulties, Perl has available the full power of Perl at the preprocessing stage.

Comment author: Clippy 15 November 2012 11:44:51PM 0 points [-]

That doesn't matter, kind of like non-paperclips.

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