RE: Animal mascot for RPG: must be blind or have 1 eye.

Gee, Don, your weekends must rival mine for excitement and variety of
outside stimuli. <g>

We've still got a problem even with one eye, since balance and the
kinaesthetic sense also help with 3d orientation.  As far as the time
dimension, maybe we need a dotard like me whose perception of time is
rapidly approaching the infinite present.

Peccary, peccary, peccary.

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A mind is a terrible thing to use.

Joel Fritz 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: Eric N. Wilson
> Cc: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Animal mascot for RPG: must be blind or have 1 eye.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> There is a MAJOR problem with most of the mascots submitted 
> to date:  They
> mostly have 2 eyes.  This means that more the most part they 
> can see and
> think in more than 1 dimension.  However, the "great minded 
> powers that
> be" that are in charge of RPG, still INSIST that RPG remain 1 
> dimensional
> in its variable definitions.  You will never see a multi dimensional
> variable in RPG, therefore, the mascots will always be more 
> versatile that
> the language in that they'll be able to think in more than 
> one dimension.
> 
> From a mathematical standpoint, we think and view in x,y,z 
> space.  Some
> would argue we think in t,x,y,z space where time is the 4th dimension.
> But to any any all RPG, X space is all it gets and since it has no
> historical reference sans being programmed for it, it has no 
> t dimension
> either.  
> 
> Ergo, I submit that due to lack of simple basic (yes even BASIC has
> multi-D arrays!  IMAGINE THAT TORONTO!!!) we must limit outselves to
> simpler organisms...perhaps paramecium, euglena or omeba...:)  ..until
> Toronto wakes up and provides us with better variable utility in RPG
> and stops wasting time in other less used languages...some of which
> have been given multi-d variables and NO I'm not rewriting my 
> apps.....:)
> 
> Don in DC
> 
> (loading up for Jon and George's replies already...:)
> 
> 
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