Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!jtkrist 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 Lines: 26 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 thealgorithm 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 ...!ihnp4!ihlpf!jtkrist (312)-416-5099