On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:38:35AM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > You would have a program that understood *some set* of rules. I can > write a calculator by generating a honking big lookup table. That's my > rules of arithmetic. > > That doesn't mean I understand the deeper rules. I would understand > arithmetic at a very shallow level of abstraction if all I had were > lookup tables.
Yes but the minute I input numbers that were not in your lookup table it would not work. This would invalidate your understanding and force you to reconsider your approach. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
