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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Titles
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 14:30:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 14:30:33 1986
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In article <495@hoptoad.uucp>, laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes:
>[..]  If you think that passing lint qualifies code as ``industrial-
> strength'' 

No, I don't.

> [..]  The part where we differ is that I believe that it is possible
> to do all the problems in Knuth by reading Knuth (and other reference
> books) and so it is not *necessary* to go to university.  Indeed, I
> *know* that there are a lot of people who have university degrees who
> *can't* do most of the problems in Knuth.

No, we don't differ here. I agree with this. And I would encourage
those who haven't looked at Knuth (or other similar references) to
try the problems. I suggest we probably also agree that significantly
many programmers without technical degrees probably cannot
understand many of the topics in Knuth without significant effort
and, probably, further training.

Peter Ladkin