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From: grunwald@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Programming vs. marks vs. initiative
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 18:23:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 18:23:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grunwald    Dec 12 17:23:00 1984


  You mention that a lot of "really famous people" started out as hacks: Well,
admittedly, the people you mentioned in your list are famous in the micro-
computer world.

  However, projects in that world do not often require the cooperation, depth
and knowledge that larger projects require. Could these people have assembled
something like the Arpanet? Designed a multi-processor machine for numerical
grid-equations? Design the INMOS-transputer or the INTEL-432?

  I doubt it -- these projects require more knowlegde & experience than
hacking. This doesn't mean that hacking is bad, but it also means that not
hacking is not a terrible thing either. Learning to cooperate with others,
to base your designs and goals and formal theory --- these are the goals for
>computer science<.