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From: sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The invisible hand of Adam Smit
Keywords: American education
Message-ID: <860@fsu.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 90 12:29:54 GMT
References: <76700221@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu.UUCP (Daan Sandee)
Organization: Florida State University
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In article <76700221@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
 >> 
 >> What are the answers to these questions?
 >> 
 >> 1.  Who is Adam Smith?
 >> 2.  What is so important about his hand?
 >> 3.  Why is his hand invisible?
 >> 
 >> Thanks.  I cannot understand that string of messages concerning Adam
 >> Smith.
 >> 
 >> Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
 >> 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      

This query proves to this European once more the quality of American
education. In Europe, people who don't know who Adam Smith was (not is),
wouldn't be allowed near a computer, let alone be employed at a University.
On the other hand, many CS professionals in Europe have no idea who Babe
Ruth was - but then, he was an American, while A.Smith was a European.
Still, A.Smith probably has had more influence on the American way of life
than even B.Ruth has had. Whereas the influence of Babe Ruth on Europe is
negligible.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045