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From: omondi@unc.UUCP (Amos Omondi)
Newsgroups: net.math,net.lang.c,net.arch
Subject: Re: Integer division
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 07:23:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 07:23:32 1986
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> In article <4917@alice.UUCP>, td@alice.UucP (Tom Duff) writes:
> > Pardon my flamage, but what sort of nonsense is this:
> > reals in this manner.
> > [......] 
> > On a higher level of discourse, this writer (Matthew P Whiner) seems
> > to think that mathematicians enjoy some sort of moral and intellectual
> > superiority to engineers and computer scientists.  Usually, this
> > attitude is a symptom of envy, since mathematicians are so hard to
> > employ, can't get decent salaries when they do find work, and have
> > a much harder time raising grant money.  The smart ones embrace
> > computer science rather than denigrating it.  The dull ones just
> > say ``Computer Science? Pfui: that's not mathematics,'' thus demonstrating
> > their lack of understanding of the nature of mathematics and of
> > computer science.
> > 
> > In summary:
> > 	It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than
> > to speak up and remove all doubt.
> 
> I don't think anybody should pardon this sort of thing.
> Arrogance and snobbishness are best indulged in
> between consenting adults in private.
> 

Presumably this also applies, notwithstanding how angry 
the number theorists are, to articles implying that all
CS types are idiots who don't have the foggiest idea of
what they are doing.