Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!fernwood!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: It *can* be done (was Re: Diatribe) Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 14:47:26 GMT References: <1991May5.003003.17184@neon.Stanford.EDU> <489@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: > The 300-plus pieces arrived for two weeks before the conference. The > day before it began, all the pieces were laid out in place. Most of > the 600 joints fit perfectly the first time. Pretty mind-boggling, > isn't it? I can download from the net a peice of software with thousands of library calls, system calls, references to files, etc. And for most software 90% of these calls fit the first time... even when I'm using widely disparate operating systems (no, not just variants of UNIX). Pretty mind-boggling, isn't it? And these weren't done by masters, either. I think programmers put themselves down too much, simply because they're working on the most complex structures built by man to date. As the cookie program says: if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, you could buy a nice colonial split level for 29c at K-mart. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"