"Returning to Wells’s analogy, let’s call the information in the paper being photocopied X. We’ll use a little pseudocode to explore what, according to Shallit’s logic, would be the algorithm necessary to generate the needed information. It would probably look like this:
1. Write X
Next, to photocopy the paper (i.e. to produce XX), the necessary commands might be as follows:
1. Write X
2. Repeat last step
Dumb! Everyone knows you have to do a read before fore you can write!
5 posted on 10/15/2009 8:33:09 PM PDT by ColdWater