23 Aug
2004
23 Aug
'04
8:10 a.m.
Chris McCormick wrote:
expressed with "to iterate is human, to recurse, divine" (and i do not
Can I ask you if this is your own quote? I am reading Hofstatder at the moment and this resonantes strongly with his ideas.
no, unfortunately i am not a big philosopher. the quote is well known in software-engineering (e.g. i have first read it in my stroustrup, somewhere between quotes from bilbo and lecorbusier), and i believe it originates from L. Peter Deutsch.
mfg.as.dr IOhannes