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From: jad@hpfcla.UUCP (jad)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 20:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 20:16:00 1985
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	I didn't want to get into this argument, but here I am.  I don't
	buy astrology, let me start out that way.  But I am just as
	interested in a program that tells me what sign of the zodiac
	something is as I am in what the phase of the moon is.  There's
	no big diff in my mind between the two.  Both of them are for
	fun, really, and don't have any bearing whatsoever on my work.
	That's just it, you see, astrology is for fun -- I'm not betting
	my life on it, and I'm not telling anyone "you should not go out
	side today because you are a scorpio" ... that's bogus.

> /***** hpfclo:net.astro / eagle!mjs /  6:17 am  Jul 29, 1985*/
> 
> I'm interested in the calculations, not horoscopes, and if some of you would
> pull your noses off the ceiling, you might discover the usefulness of code
> developed for astrology.  Haven't any of you ever used code from a program
> whose purpose was unrelated to yours, just to save development time?  I try
> to do so whenever possible -- why must we all reinvent the wheel?

	More or less my point, so I thought I'd make you read it again.
	Perhaps I'm not sure what you mean by astrology ... but playing
	around with things is a great (and painless) way to learn; with
	some luck, what you learn will not be all junk ...


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