From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-07-14T11:57:47+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

In message <46440c255524a060ec6840278884d168@localhost>, MenTaLguY writes:
>On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:27:06 +0900, Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> And how do you know Rome wasn't built in a day?  For all you know, it could
>> have been built in 10 seconds flat. No one can prove anything. It's a fact.

>If you can't (at least informally) prove a logical proposition, you've
>got no hope as a programmer.

Strictly speaking, our ability to prove the claim that Rome wasn't built in
a day is contingent on certain assumptions about the consistency of physical
laws, etcetera, etcetera.

Sadly, in this fallen world, we must make a number of assumptions.  That is,
assuming that there's a world.  And assuming that we want to reach conclusions.
No one has ever proven to my satisfaction that we ought to reach conclusions.

-s