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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs
Message-ID: <388@taumet.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 16:46:34 GMT
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markh@oldcolo.UUCP (Mark Hampson) writes:

>I think it is quite amazing that so many programmers are anarchists.
>It would seem to me that people who must work in such an orderly fashion
>would be straight-laced and fly right types.

You are, as a lawyer would say, assuming a fact not in evidence.  Many
programmers (too many, in my view) do NOT work in an orderly fashion.
Hence the popularity of languages which impose few constraints on
the programmer (required declarations and type checking, for example).
Additionally, the work space of many a programmer could be described as
looking like a rat's nest, except it would be insulting to rats.
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com