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From: jtkrist@ihlpf.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Control flow and common sense
Message-ID: <4691@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 May 88 16:49:11 GMT
References: <4605@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <41445UH2@PSUVM> <1122@daisy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jtkrist@ihlpf.UUCP (55235-Krist,J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: why reinvent the wheel?

In article <1122@daisy.UUCP> david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:
>One fellow I know documented a particularly complex and obscure code with the
>comment "This procudure implements the  algorithm given
>on page  of  by ".  (The angle bracketed items
>are mine.)
>
golly, this could be me! whenever i need to implement an algorith, i
look first in knuth and if i find what i need, i transliterate the
algorithm, as closely as possible, in the language i'm using - yes i
know it's not structured and there are lots of labels and gotos, but
it works - who was it who said that scientists stand on each other's
shoulders, while programmers stand on each other's toes?
>
>It is folks like him who justify, in my mind, the existence of nuclear weapons.
>
>					-- David Schachter

if the state of illinois disappears tonight, you know what happened
- maybe i can talk jim thompson (our governor for life) into a
software defense initiative?

-- 
	James T. Krist
	AT&T Bell Laboratories		IHP-1F230
	Naperville, IL  60566
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