"Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." -Donald Knuth
Well, that quote is p(r)etty idealism... What we want is not to program for the computers, nor to program for the programmers: what we want to program for, is the future merging of branches. That's it. No fuss about it. Just thought it had to be said. Don't bother about Knuth. Don't worry about Knuth.
____________________________________________________________________ Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:36:38PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
"Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." -Donald Knuth
Well, that quote is p(r)etty idealism... What we want is not to program for the computers, nor to program for the programmers: what we want to program for, is the future merging of branches. That's it. No fuss about
What branches? Who is 'we'?
it. Just thought it had to be said. Don't bother about Knuth. Don't worry about Knuth.
You don't think Knuth ever contributed anything useful to computer science?
Chris.
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:36:38PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Well, that quote is p(r)etty idealism... What we want is not to program for the computers, nor to program for the programmers: what we want to program for, is the future merging of branches. That's it. No fuss about
What branches? Who is 'we'?
I'm referring to devel_0_39 vs MAIN... in CVS
"we" is those who work on devel_0_39.
it. Just thought it had to be said. Don't bother about Knuth. Don't worry about Knuth.
You don't think Knuth ever contributed anything useful to computer science?
Don't take it literally. I was only talking about one quote of Knuth. See other posts about that quote of Knuth on pd-dev, pd-list and pd-ot, in the last week or two.
____________________________________________________________________ Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada
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