dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (03/12/86)
There was a computer wizard, working for a university, programming in machine language, which was the only language then available. Nobody else could program as well as he could. He treated the machine as his own, and nobody else was allowed to touch it. One day a naive student showed him a manual for one of the first assembly languages, thinking he would be delighted because it would make his work easier. Instead, the wizard angrily threw his pencil across the room, saying "Damn! Now *everyone'll* be doing it." I was told this story by the naive student herself. She had heard that the story was published in _The Soul of a New Machine_, but I read that book and it wasn't in there. -- David Canzi