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  Re: VC or the other one?  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 15 Jan 2002 10:33:12
Message: <3c444bb8$1@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3c44495e@news.povray.org...

> No, for the logical-challanged :-)
>
> If you have two things and you have two, and only two names, and you know
> that each thing has to have one unique name, and you know the unique name of
> one of the things, the only logical name for the other thing is the only
> name remaining because that will be the only unique name left to give the
> other thing.  Thus, logic dictates that one of the compiles has the name
> "VC" and one the name "Intel".

Good logic, but bad reality/semantics. I have a choice of two docs, one in
microsoft format, one not specified. One document identifies itself as a Word
document, therefore the other document must be the microsoft one.

In other words, I have no way of knowing that Intel's compiler isn't called VC.


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