Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!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: <1437@uw-nsr.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 00:34:17 GMT References: <416@ubbpc.UUCP> <3741@hubcap.UUCP> <1436@uw-nsr.UUCP> Reply-To: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386) Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA Lines: 19 In article <1436@uw-nsr.UUCP> john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386) writes: >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 really blew it. The quote is from Hamming, not Perlis. Please accept my apologies. Maybe someday I'll learn not to post on a hunch. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. I'll shut up now :-) -- John Sambrook Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu University of Washington RC-05 UUCP: uw-nsr!john Seattle, Washington 98195 Dial: (206) 548-4386