OT: excellent book on information theory

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:15:21 -0500, val bykoski wrote:

> The existing (formal) language, being helpful, was created 
> hundreds years ago and of course needs an update.

How does this follow? Why does something need to be updated *just* because
it was created hundreds of years ago? Isn't it more likely that having
passed the test of time, something that old is going to be better than
some untested, untried new invention?


-- 
Steven.