To: Alamo-Girl; dougd; hosepipe
The initial program requires a programmer - but the program can subsequently modify itself.... Indeed. It has been explicitly designed so that it can do so, I imagine.
1,623 posted on
07/26/2007 10:06:18 AM PDT by
betty boop
("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
To: betty boop
Indeed. It has been explicitly designed so that it can do so, I imagine
Precisely so, dearest sister in Christ!
To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; dougd
[.. The initial program requires a programmer - but the program can subsequently modify itself.... / Indeed. It has been explicitly designed so that it can do so, I imagine. ..]
Thats what BOOTSTRAP(program) means.. The strap on the boot that makes it possible to put the foot into the boot.. and "the Foot" can then line dance wherever it wants to..
NO Bootstrap then the "program" is just abstract ideas in an abstract language.. and the "computer" is a poorly designed anchor..
1,631 posted on
07/26/2007 10:51:49 AM PDT by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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