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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Re- HLLs vs. Assembly
Message-ID: <15833@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Apr 91 22:56:54 GMT
References: <9104101742.AA13905@apple.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9104101742.AA13905@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes:
-Imagine a Chemist that didn't know the detailed properties of the basic
-elements, although he knows what many different combinations of chemicals
-did.  He may be able to do alot with the knowledge he has, but he doesn't
-understand WHY it works or HOW he can come up with something completely
-different.  On the OTHER hand, a chemist that knows the physical properties
-of all the elements and how and WHY they react with other elements.
-This chemist, can, undoubtably, do everything the other chemist can plus a
-WHOLE lot more.

In actual fact, not even the very best chemists attempt to predict
properties of compounds on the basis of properties of elements.
Chemistry is just not that simple.