peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (05/06/91)
In article <NELSON.91May5214234@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: > The 300-plus pieces arrived for two weeks before the conference. The > day before it began, all the pieces were laid out in place. Most of > the 600 joints fit perfectly the first time. Pretty mind-boggling, > isn't it? I can download from the net a peice of software with thousands of library calls, system calls, references to files, etc. And for most software 90% of these calls fit the first time... even when I'm using widely disparate operating systems (no, not just variants of UNIX). Pretty mind-boggling, isn't it? And these weren't done by masters, either. I think programmers put themselves down too much, simply because they're working on the most complex structures built by man to date. As the cookie program says: if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, you could buy a nice colonial split level for 29c at K-mart. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) (05/08/91)
In article <NELSON.91May5214234@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: |In article <489@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: | | Imagine two carpenters building a door. One builds the frame, the other | builds the door. Neither one is on-site, and neither has met the other... | |I'm afraid that you're revealing your ignorance here, Glenn (don't |worry, I've done it *lots* of times myself). Not only *can* it be |done, it *has* been done... |The 300-plus pieces arrived for two weeks before the conference. The |day before it began, all the pieces were laid out in place. Most of |the 600 joints fit perfectly the first time... Most isn't nearly good enough. Tom