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Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)

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Subject: Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)
From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 01:37:03 GMT
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In article <5j0gq5$jbi@mimsy.cs.umd.edu>, clin@cs.umd.edu (Charles Lin) wrote:

>     If one had to choose a single type for everything, a string is a
> pretty good choice.   Why not a number?  How would you represent a
> string with a number?

Goedel showed how to represent everything with bignums.

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