[PD] Pd *is* a programming language!
Arturo Sinclair
arturos at ufl.edu
Sun Oct 1 08:59:47 CEST 2006
Without a doubt my favorite writer. Although it is a recurring theme
in Borges you are probably referring to "The Library of Babel". You
can read a plot summary of this extraordinary story at http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
On Oct 1, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, chris clepper wrote:
>>> It's the catalog for the store.
>> It's not directly a data store, because any kinds of things lie
>> between the data stores of the internet, and the user... if there
>> is even a data store. Often the servers are used for computations
>> rather than storage.
>
> I also wanted to recommend a good short story by Jorge Luis Borges.
> It's an absurd dystopia about information theory, permutations,
> catalogues, metacatalogues, lies, noise, typos, randomness, and
> meaning. Well, that's what I remember reading into it.
>
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