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From: glratt@rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larrett)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs
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Date: 7 Aug 90 17:23:35 GMT
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>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.  The diversity of systems
>that have Easter Eggs planted in them is limited only by the number of
>systems available.

You completely ignore the creativity necessary to be a good programmer.  True,
the ability to organize information is needed, but without inspiration, without
the odd "shot-in-the-dark" and trial and error from which to learn, much of
the programming going on would be stuck in debugging.

(Besides, Easter Eggs are fun ;-> )

	Glenn Larratt
	glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu
	Glenn Larratt			glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu
	Computing Resource Center	OCIS, Rice University, Houston, Texas