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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: No Such Thing
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:55:36 EDT
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> Flame On! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BOOLEAN!!! Flame Off.

There is no such thing as an integer, either.  So what.

Booleans are not an "outmoded concept".  They form a different
algebraic system (a lattice) than real numbers (a field) and
have different uses, both conceptually and formally.

I object to mapping everything into arithmetic terms.
Not everything in the universe is arithmetic.

I don't understand the point of explaining how C maps
natural booleans into arithmetic terms; that is just
what I am complaining about.