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From: jallen@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Joseph Allen)
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Subject: Re: Software "Engineers"
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Date: 1 May 91 01:49:12 GMT
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Hell, I'm not an engineer; I'm an Artist.  Just look at the facts:

	Admirers pay *millions* to commission our Art

	We don't know what we're doing, we just use our gift of Divine
	Inspiration to create our Art

	Many members of our guild support some great movement, such as
	"Structured Programming", or "Object Oriented Programming" each
	of which has its founding members and defining works.  Several new
	movements are appearing even now: Functional Programming for
	example.

	Some members not attached to the great movements (Hackers) remain
	unfettered to produce the chaotic Avant Garde.  These artists often
	refuse pay for their works, choosing instead to live squalidly in
	Greenwich Village and Soho, er um, Cambridge and "the Valley"  

	New mediums are explored daily:  First there was the steam & brass of
	Charles Babbage.  Steal, relays, and valves quickly followed.  The
	medium stabalized with the de facto Von Neumann.  Several parallel
	variations also appeared.  New mediums such as dataflow and neural net
	are currently being explored. 
	
	Then there's the Pop-Art that even the masses can participate in. 
	There's Lotus Macros, Query By Example, and pictoral coding to name
	a few.
	
	A few Mischevous Adventurers use their punk-art to the indignation of
	the establishment

--
#define h 23 /* Height */         /* jallen@ic.sunysb.edu (129.49.12.74) */
#define w 79 /* Width */                       /* Amazing */
int i,r,b[]={-w,w,1,-1},d,a[w*h];m(p){a[p]=2;while(d=(p>2*w?!a[p-w-w]?1:0:0)|(
p<w*(h-2)?!a[p+w+w]?2:0:0)|(p%w!=w-2?!a[p+2]?4:0:0)|(p%w!=1?!a[p-2]?8:0:0)){do
i=3&(r=(r*57+1))/d;while(!(d&(1<<i)));a[p+b[i]]=2;m(p+2*b[i]);}}main(){r=time(
0L);m(w+1);for(i=0;i%w?0:printf("\n"),i!=w*h;i++)printf("#\0 "+a[i]);}