From: Arne Vajhøj on
On 20-06-2010 17:38, Lew wrote:
> On 06/20/2010 04:56 PM, ilan wrote:
>> Unfortunately, it is "not true" the most of the time only in theory and
>> it is true most of the time in practice that they have no understood
>> meaning since no one has successfully defined a dynamic semantic
>> interpretaion for Java by any of three main approaches. Scheme is one of
>> the languages for which a formal semantic interpretation has been
>> successfully created. So some people interpret Scheme that way.
>>
>> Java is not one of the languages. No complete operational, denotational
>> or axiomatic semantics have been created for Java.
>
> "No true Scotsman." We *were* talking about interpretation of individual
> computer programs. Suddenly now you're talking about a "complete
> operational, denotational or axiomatic semantic" for the Java language
> as a whole, about which I have no claims.

But it sounded cool.

You take some advanced terms put them in a sentence and it
may give people the impression that you know something.

Arne