tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (10/19/89)
In article <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: >Finally, one can always avoid enhancing languages. (And yes, I too >prefer Fortran II to any of its descendents.) Amen to this. Real men use arithmetic IF's! And real systems programmers invoke machine language subprograms by initializing a COMMON block and CALLing it... Neff's Theorem: Advanced interactive graphic windowing user friendly interfaces will never be complete until the user, at his fancy workstation, is able to submit a DECK at the OPERATOR WINDOW and wait for his PRINTOUT on a nearby SHELF! -- Machines will never think, for "thought" ?! Tom Neff will be redefined, as often as needed, !? tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET as that which a machine cannot do. ?! ...uunet!bfmny0!tneff