Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!uw-nsr!john From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: How to supplant FORTRAN (Was: Algol-68 down for the count) Message-ID: <1436@uw-nsr.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 06:55:42 GMT References: <416@ubbpc.UUCP> <3741@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386) Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA Lines: 18 In article <3741@hubcap.UUCP> steve@ragman writes: >Scientists I've worked with certainly quote >Hamming: ``the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.'' I could be wrong but I think this quote should be attributed to Alan Perlis, and not Hamming. I would check ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 17, number 9, September 1982. There is an article by Alan Perlis "Epigrams on Programming." I don't have the article handy, so I can't be certain that the quote is by Perlis. -- John Sambrook Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu University of Washington RC-05 UUCP: uw-nsr!john Seattle, Washington 98195 Dial: (206) 548-4386