From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!ihuxn!djmolny Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Dr. D., math, etc. Article-I.D.: ihuxn.121 Posted: Tue May 11 08:52:30 1982 Received: Wed May 12 03:35:13 1982 FLAME ON!! When am I going to stop hearing statements like we13!plw made: "I doubt that people with a weak math background are designing compilers and operating systems"? I've done both, and my mathematical knowledge would fit on the head of a pin. Judging from the responses I received from my math vs. CS query, a lot of other people are in the same category. Software engineering is not math. Period. You can look at it from a math angle if you wish, but there's more to programming than formal analyses, just as there's more to fiction than syntax and grammar. (As this note proves.) End of flame. -- DJ Molny ihnss!ihuxn!djmolny