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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Development policies
- In-Reply-To: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au's message of Tue, 29 Dec 92 08:45:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec29075524@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 07:55:24
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- In article <725618721snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
- References: <JMC.92Dec28111616@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 08:45:21 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec28111616@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- > The bill setting pi = 3 was referred to the Committee on Swamps.
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- They didn't then happen to proceed with the formation of a further
- committee to evaluate the recommendations of the Committee on Swamps,
- did they?
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- They did here, believe it or not. Big Swamp, in fact.
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- Gil
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- Somehow the Committee on Swamps never got around to reporting on the
- bill. Perhaps on some anniversary or other, the Committee on Wetlands
- could be persuaded to take it up again.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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