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OT: Aber, meine Damen und Herren, das ist keine Informatik

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Vassil Nikolov

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Sep 24, 2002, 12:49:50 AM9/24/02
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I recently opened a book I hadn't touched for a long time, and read
the following anecdote again. Erenfest had trained a parrot to
say, `Aber, meine Herren, das ist keine Physik.' [`But gentlemen,
this is no physics.'] Then he suggested that the parrot chair
discussions about the then new theory of quantum mechanics in
Göttingen.

Now, this led me to think of an Eliza-like program as a latter-day
Usenet analogy. I would contribute if I had more of the proverbial
copious free time.

---Vassil.

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Ceterum, censeo, specificationem non esse corrigenda.

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