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From: vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: visualization (sic)
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.193618.12998@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 8 Nov 90 19:36:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.193654.7665@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <7568@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <7570@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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	In article <7570@eos.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov
(Eugene Miya) writes:

> Richard W. Hamming deserves to be mentioned as person who made the
> observation:
>	The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

	I read somewhere (I forget where) that, years later, Hamming
himself said: ``The purpose of computing is not yet in sight.'' This
might be apocryphal, but I do not know about that. Perhaps somebody
might ask him.


JCA
vanadis@cs.dal.ca