Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[Tommi]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 20:35:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/7/2013 8:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> All Siri does is recognize a set of stock patterns, just like 
>>> Eliza. Step out of that, even slightly, and it reverts to a 
>>> default, again, just like Eliza.
>>>
>>> Of course, Siri had a much larger set of patterns it 
>>> recognized, but with a bit of experimentation you
>>> quickly figure out what those stock patterns are.
>>> There's nothing resembling human understanding there.
>>
>> But that applies to humans, too - they just have a much larger 
>> set of patterns they recognize.
>
> I don't buy that. Humans don't process data like computers do.

Humans don't and _can't_ process data like computers do, but 
computers _can_ process data like humans do.

Human brain does it's computation in a highly parallel manner, 
but signals run much slower than they do in computers. What human 
brain does is a very specific process, optimized for survival on 
planet Earth.

But computers are generic computation devices. They can model any 
computational processes, including the ones that human brain uses 
(at least once we get some more cores in our computers).

Disclaimer: I'm basically just paraphrasing stuff I read from 
"The Singularity Is Near" and "How to Create a Mind".