XPost: comp.theory   
   From: chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/26/2025 11:06 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-27, olcott  wrote:   
   >> On 11/26/2025 10:48 PM, Mike Terry wrote:   
   >>> On 27/11/2025 04:19, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-11-27, olcott  wrote:   
   >>>>> The chief editor of one of the most prestigious   
   >>>>> computer science journals exchanged about 15   
   >>>>> emails with me. The bottom line was that he   
   >>>>> could not understand the x86 language well enough.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> LOL; the obvious interpretation of that is "I will say anything   
   >>>> for you to stop e-mailing me, you sick crank".   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Or... the chief editor really was ignorant of the x86 instruction set!   
   >>> Yes, you'd think that someone in his role would have an idea about how   
   >>> processors work (executing instructions, and all that stuff) and have   
   >>> some familiarity with x86, but apparently not!   
   >>>   
   >>> But don't worry - PO is in the process of making a C-interpreter version   
   >>> of his argument.  Then the editor will have no problem understanding   
   >>> PO's argument - you just wait and see!   
   >>>   
   >>> Or will he?  If the chief editor is an ignorant dumbo   
   >>   
   >> Then he wouldn't have been the chief editor of   
   >> one of the most prestigious computer science   
   >> journals that exist.   
   >>   
   >>> who's baffled by   
   >>> x86, who's to say he won't be equally ignorant of "C"?  In fact, I'll   
   >>> bet that's how it will turn out when PO submits is new revised paper.   
   >>> [From PO's perspective at least.]  Hehe.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> The key thing about C is that it is simple   
   >> enough that cheaters look ridiculous.   
   >   
   > You will never be taken seriously if you use languages that are   
   > completely out of favor in CS academia for doing research in this kind   
   > of topic.   
   >   
   > You need a language in which a meta-circular interpreter   
   > (interpreter for that language written in that langauge)   
   > is about a page of code.   
   >   
   > Also, you  must work in a purely functional language   
   > in which impure functions are /inexpressible/. That way   
   > everyone knows at a glance that your results are not   
   > incorrect on account of some hidden impurity.   
   >   
   > Or else, you must laboriously work everything out with   
   > Turing Machines: like strip mining for coal with a spoon.   
   >   
      
   Mabey his might be like this guy that drilled a hole in his head. PO   
   says I shall try to halt:   
      
   (Pi (12/12) Movie CLIP - Max Drills His Head (1998) HD)   
      
   https://youtu.be/XGZ0K5Rpacw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)