[CrackMonkey] dammit

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Sun Jul 30 14:57:25 PDT 2000


begin  Paul J Collins quotation of Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:56:47PM +0100:

> Just try understanding The Art of Programming without math.  You need
> math for parts of the discipline, just as you need chemistry to
> understand how Monkey Master's stomach acids breaks down those nasty
> ol' bananas.

Just because "you need to understand X to do Y" doesn't mean "X should
be next to Y in the library."

Of course, in San Francisco, everything either doesn't circulate, has
been obsolete for 40 years, or is shelved someplace even the staff
can't find it.  But look at the pretty marble floors!

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Don Marti                                No haiku patents
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