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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.000115.639@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
- Date: 4 Sep 92 00:01:15 +1200
- References: <1992Sep1.202814.13937@crd.ge.com>
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- From article <1992Sep1.202814.13937@crd.ge.com>, by davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen):
- > You don't need much CS to program, and you don't need much programming
- > to do CS research.
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- An excellent example of the latter being Dana Scott. When he was given the
- Turing award his speech started with an apology for winning the award despite
- not knowing the first thing about actual programming.
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- Just my two rubber ningis worth.
- Name: Michael Chisnall (chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)
- I'm not a .signature virus and nor do I play one on tv.
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