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Someone should do some work (was Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA))

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Thu, 03 April 2014 00:42 UTC

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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
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Subject: Someone should do some work (was Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA))
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:01:52PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> (and others that should know better), is pretty clearly not tea
> but it is less clear whether it is not-tea or not.

There is evidently an opportunity for an intuitionistic state machine
here.  In intuitionism, as I'm sure everyone is fully aware, the law
of excluded middle and double-negation are both rejected as axioms
(mostly because of the principle of constructive provability.
Intuitionism is not a 2-value logic, and may not be a finite-value
logic).

I think it would be fun to write ABNF for this system.  Or more
exactly, I think it would be fun if someone else did that.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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