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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Subject: Anybody know what book (if any) this story is told in?
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 19:47:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 19:47:01 1986
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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There was a computer wizard, working for a university, programming
in machine language, which was the only language then available.  Nobody
else could program as well as he could.  He treated the machine as his
own, and nobody else was allowed to touch it.

One day a naive student showed him a manual for one of the first
assembly languages, thinking he would be delighted because it would
make his work easier.  Instead, the wizard angrily threw his pencil
across the room, saying "Damn!  Now *everyone'll* be doing it."


I was told this story by the naive student herself.  She had heard that
the story was published in _The Soul of a New Machine_, but I read that
book and it wasn't in there.
-- 
David Canzi