Re: C's sins of commission

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From: Darren New
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 22:17

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>pcg> Ah no, this cannot pass. Lists and trees are *implementations*, and
>pcg> when you draw them you draw specific encodings of such
>pcg> implementations.

>gudeman> No, this cannot pass.  Lists and trees are mental structures
>gudeman> that humans use to visualize things.

An associate of mine pointed out that we have spend the last several
species navigating through trees, with a high survival value to being
able to do so efficiently and without falling.  It seems entirely 
possible to me (IMHO) that trees are indeed elementary mental
structures for most humans. After all, we've only spend the last
few thousand years manipulating symbols formally. 1/2 :-) -- Darren
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