Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!tove!israel From: israel@tove.UUCP (Bruce Israel) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.cse Subject: Re: students editing output Message-ID: <335@tove.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 23:46:34 EDT Article-I.D.: tove.335 Posted: Tue Sep 24 23:46:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:21:36 EDT References: <433@uvm-cs.UUCP> <1051@hou2h.UUCP> Reply-To: israel@tove.UUCP (Bruce israel) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.unix:5729 net.cse:476 In article <1051@hou2h.UUCP> mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) writes: >Sort of a flame. >If the assignment is simple enough to be calculated by hand, then it >is nonsensical to assign a person to perform this on a computer. One of >the duties of a professor of computer science is also to teach when, >and when not to use a computer for a given task. >end of flame. Oh, gimme a break! By this logic, the only programs that should ever be written on a computer are heavy number-crunching programs! Obviously spreadsheets to keep financial books or balance checkbooks are unnecessary, as well as database programs (its just as easy to store info on paper), Expert systems (most of the time the experts can do the inferencing in their heads in a fraction of the time), Screen editors (I obviously can do these editing functions by hand, on paper), as well as most other computer applications. -- Bruce Israel seismo!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel@Maryland (Arpanet) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com