Re: NJ wants to license programmers

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 21:02

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Dan Bernstein writes:

   Programming is an art, ...

I think it *can* be art. There are millions of lines of code across
the disks on internet, and most of that code seem to have much more
in common with street-corner velvet paintings than with art.

In any case, I think that in comparison to something like Knuth's 1974
Turing lecture [1], your blabber on programming and art is almost [but
not quite] as interesting as the text on a box of Kellogs cereal.

How about a diatribe on forth programming and zen instead? :-/

oz
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[1] Donald E. Knuth, "Computer Programming as an Art", ACM Turing
    Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years, Addison-Wesley, 33-46
    1987.
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From: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: NJ wants to license programmers
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