From: ranga@cs.umd.edu (M.Ranganathan) Newsgroups: soc.culture.punjab,soc.culture.indian, [others] Subject: Re: "Brahmins not used to killing unjustly" Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:53:22 -0400 In article , Kunal Singh wrote: > >In article <540hgj$3cv@baekdoo.cs.umd.edu> ranga@cs.umd.edu (M.Ranganathan) wri tes: > >.. stuff deleted .. > >This is the one of the most interesting views I've seen on the subject >of Models of Computation after being bored utterly to death by it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >during my own education: > My friend, where did you go to school ? You think NP has to do with Models of Computation Perhaps you need an education. You mean "complexity" my friend For in the very bitter end Alan never cared you see About matters of complexity And Polynomial time Oh God, oh God how am I ever Going to make this rhyme It was Cook who defined Complexity Way back when in nineteen seventy three Alan never cared about alacrity It was Cook who proclaimed "Aum Tat SAT" with gravity. Upon which he was labelled a Brahminist A Casteist a Hindu Hegemonist, A Communist, Mariammaminist, A reductionist, a mininimalist, And attacked by none other than our Kathirist Assorted Sardars and Tamilists But Alan was different from you and me Very concerned was Alan you see About halting, decidability and such About speed, Alan never cared too much By the time Cook came, Alan lost the touch For he was dead, and had rotted too much. (~C) Copy Left M.Ranganathan. Senator - I am no theoretical Computer Scientist.