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From: lleone@fir16.cray.com (Larry Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Art vs. Engineering
Message-ID: <161038.10736@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 17 May 91 23:21:28 GMT
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Reply-To: lleone@fir16.cray.com (Larry Leone)
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Something I learned from my former days as an engineering student
which I think applies equally well to the kind of programming I practice in industry today.


  en.gi.neer.ing - the art of applied science


Think about this the next time you choose a sorting algorithm
from the realm of computer science and artfully apply it to the
problem at hand.

  my 2 cents,
  --Larry

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 Larry Leone    Internet: lleone@cray.com    UUCP: uunet!cray!lleone