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From: bond@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Johny Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Theoretical computer scientists know a thing or two
Keywords: theory
Message-ID: <260@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Date: 1 Oct 90 18:54:01 GMT
References: <12007@chaph.usc.edu> <409@pirates.UUCP> <12235@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: University of Bordeaux I - FRANCE
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In article <12235@chaph.usc.edu> wilber@aludra.usc.edu (John Wilber) writes:

> And it's not the mathematicians who write any of the programs that make
> the technology work.  I doubt that many of them know or that ANY of them
> care that P<>NP.  You can write anything you want without that knowledge.
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   I decided to reply to these three lines, but the main reason consist of the
preceeding 50 lines of your message ...

   As a theoretical computer scientist, I hope, not even one from our student
will make such an assertion ...


						J. Bond

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