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Subject: [dogie!mish@speedy.wisc.edu: Re: Sorry, no philosophy allowed here.]
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Date: Tue, 10 May 88 13:31 EDT
From: dogie!mish@speedy.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: Sorry, no philosophy allowed here.
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In article <414@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes...
 
>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.

YACC Lives! I've written many a program that included code 'written' by
some other program (namely YACC). 
  The point is that the computer allows us to extend what we know. I may
not have actually written the code, but I knew how to tell the computer to
write the code. In doing so, I created a program that I never (well, almost
never) could have written myself even though I knew how
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