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From: Jeff Dalton <mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!jeff@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Sorry, no philosophy allowed here.
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In article <1069@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
(Gilbert Cockton) says:
> If you can't write it down, you cannot possibly program it.

Not so.  I can write programs that I could not write down on paper
because I can use other programs to so some of the work.  So I might
write programs that are too long, or too complex, to write on paper.