Bruno:
You may be correct that it is only an intellectual exercise. How many
lines of LISP code comprises the UD?
I may have been infomally exposed to LISP in college, but that was
decades ago.
Ronald
On Jul 20, 5:01 am, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2011, at 21:16, meekerdb wrote:
>
> > On 7/19/2011 11:32 AM, ronaldheld wrote:
> >> Given limited resources and for only 1 program, it does not seem
> >> logical to learn LISP. Are there Windows or DOS executables of the
> >> UD?
> >> FWIW. I use MAPLE and not Mathematica.
> >> Ronald
>
> > Maple is based on LISP. An executable UD wouldn't be very
> > interesting. Since it doesn't halt what would you do with it? It's
> > the program itself that is more interesting.
>
> Absolutely. Even more important is the understanding that the UD, and
> its mathematical execution is embedded in the first order arithmetical
> true relation. This is not obvious, nor easy to prove. But it is
> proved in any accurate proof of Gödel's theorem for arithmetic.
>
> Also, I would say to Ronald that it is easy to write a code for the UD
> in any language. I guess it will be a tedious work in a language like
> Fortran, but that might be a good exercise in programming. But again,
> you are right: it makes no sense to program a UD. The running is
> infinite. The only reasons to program it are pedagogical and
> illustrative.
>
> Bruno
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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