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From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT
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Date: 26 Jul 90 15:27:54 GMT
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In article <9424@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
> Like most of us, I was immediately blown away by the lasso in MacPaint.  
> You could grab irregularly-shaped areas and drag them around, and you 
> could see through the blank parts while doing so!  Amazing!
> 
> My friends' reaction?  I quote my roommate: "I'm a computer-science 
major; 
> I don't need a stinking mouse."

The "correct" answer is, "I'm a computer science major; I don't need no 
steenking hardware."  Real CS majors program Turing machines and prove 
algorithms using the lambda calculus.

Seriously though, CS education is extremely useful and helpful, but, like 
many other fields, it teaches you only a small amount of what you need to 
know.  Anybody who is even remotely successful needs to go way beyond 
this.  People who don't may feel more comfortable with something other 
than a Macintosh.

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