I'm reading Lamport's new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" and am amused that sometimes he refers to algorithms as being "invented" (e.g., Paxos) and at other times refers to them as being "discovered" (e.g. an N-process mutual exclusion algorithm).
@cleeus@palvaro I like to say that philosophers have the privilege of arguing endlessly over the nature of identity but at the end of the day the programmer has to implement the equals() method.
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