From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!spoon Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: New ideas in program development from IBM Article-I.D.: watarts.1764 Posted: Thu Mar 31 03:23:30 1983 Received: Thu Mar 31 04:46:31 1983 Reply-To: spoon@watarts.uucp (M. J. Lecuyer) Glancing through the sales brochure (named above) I chanced upon the following bit of wisdom selected from several scattered through the 24 pages: Adding the finishing touches and smoothing out the flaws of a program takes the same kind of attention to detail that a master craftsman applies when using a rasp to finish a fine piece of woodwork. As I recall a wood rasp is used to remove large quantities of wood quickly. Just what being said about IBM's master programmers?