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Article #3716Re: Software "Engineers"
From: Joseph Allen
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 01:49
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 01:49
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Hell, I'm not an engineer; I'm an Artist. Just look at the facts:
Admirers pay *millions* to commission our Art
We don't know what we're doing, we just use our gift of Divine
Inspiration to create our Art
Many members of our guild support some great movement, such as
"Structured Programming", or "Object Oriented Programming" each
of which has its founding members and defining works. Several new
movements are appearing even now: Functional Programming for
example.
Some members not attached to the great movements (Hackers) remain
unfettered to produce the chaotic Avant Garde. These artists often
refuse pay for their works, choosing instead to live squalidly in
Greenwich Village and Soho, er um, Cambridge and "the Valley"
New mediums are explored daily: First there was the steam & brass of
Charles Babbage. Steal, relays, and valves quickly followed. The
medium stabalized with the de facto Von Neumann. Several parallel
variations also appeared. New mediums such as dataflow and neural net
are currently being explored.
Then there's the Pop-Art that even the masses can participate in.
There's Lotus Macros, Query By Example, and pictoral coding to name
a few.
A few Mischevous Adventurers use their punk-art to the indignation of
the establishment
--
#define h 23 /* Height */ /* jallen@ic.sunysb.edu (129.49.12.74) */
#define w 79 /* Width */ /* Amazing */
int i,r,b[]={-w,w,1,-1},d,a[w*h];m(p){a[p]=2;while(d=(p>2*w?!a[p-w-w]?1:0:0)|(
p<w*(h-2)?!a[p+w+w]?2:0:0)|(p%w!=w-2?!a[p+2]?4:0:0)|(p%w!=1?!a[p-2]?8:0:0)){do
i=3&(r=(r*57+1))/d;while(!(d&(1<<i)));a[p+b[i]]=2;m(p+2*b[i]);}}main(){r=time(
0L);m(w+1);for(i=0;i%w?0:printf("\n"),i!=w*h;i++)printf("#\0 "+a[i]);}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!jallen From: jallen@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Joseph Allen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Software "Engineers" Message-ID: <1991May1.014912.29234@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 1 May 91 01:49:12 GMT References: <3844@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <3379@charon.cwi.nl> <1991Apr25.234953.20537@dbase.A-T.COM> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 38