;) Off topic: Maybe the entire space time, the universe and his history, is isomorphic to a mathematical structure.
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe_frames.html <http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe_frames.html> 2009/10/1 Peter Verswyvelen <bugf...@gmail.com> > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com > > wrote: > >> Sure. But what is a computer program? It's a *list of instructions* that >> tells a computer *how to do something*. And yet, the Haskell definition of >> sum looks more like a definition of what a sum is rather than an actual, >> usable procedure for *computing* that sum. (Of course, we know that it /is/ >> in fact executable... it just doesn't look it at first sight.) >> > > Is it? The list of instruction is just an abstraction layer built on top of > purely physical process of electrons and transistors; I'm not sure how much > imperativeness remains at this level? Not to mention the quantum mechanical > processes that take place... And that are also just mathematical models... I > mean, it really depends from which angle and at which detail you look at it, > no? > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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