It's not wasted time at all. Discovering things is fun and interesting; it doen't matter if someone else has discovered it first. On Mar 8, 2007, at 02:51 , Dan Weston wrote:
Congratulations! You've just reinvented Church encoding.
Do not let the multiple responses of how you apparently wasted your time reinventing (or do they mean stealing?) something Church did long ago dampen your enthusiasm to learn exciting things and then share them.
I for one am always eager to hear them, and am now reading up on Church encoding so that I can sound as in the know as everybody else on this list.
The Nobel-prize-winning Richard Feinmann loved to rederive previously discovered things. On occasion, he even managed to invent new physical theories by finding flaw in them. I suspect he might well have replied to you with somewhat more encouraging words than others have seen fit to offer.
Dan
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