Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Good programmers and assembly language Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 02:59:29 GMT References: <7214@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <1523@tronsbox.xei.com> Organization: Drew University - Madison NJ Lines: 33 In article <1523@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes: > >In article <7214@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo) writes: > >qsort :: [*] -> [*] > >qsort [] = [] > >qsort (a:X) = qsort [b|b<-x; b<=a] ++ [a] ++ qsort [b|b<-x; b>a] > If learning a high-level language means putting up with gibberish like > THAT, I think I'll switch to raw hex instead. Anyone that's taken Discrete Mathematics could easily see that the above code is a quicksort. I don't even know Miranda. I guess it's like people said about Matt Dillion and good education having an effect on the code you write. Now I understand the minority of computing professionals that have suggested that the government set up a way for programmers to get some sort of certification. Programmers wouldn't be required to have a license to work, but certification would be something that employeers could look for when hiring for certain jobs. Certainly military contracts would require programmers to have certain certifications just like solder-jockeys have military certification. [ Let's not debate the certification issue. If you want to, take it to comp.misc and tell me so I can subscribe to that newsgroup. By the way, there are TONS of ACM articles and letters-to-the-editor about the topic for those that are interested. ] Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drew.bitnet tlimonce@drew.edu -- 201-408-5389 Three witches making a potion. One says, "A Liza Minnelli record, light beer, poppers, Frye boots; what's this spell for anyway?"