Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!mish From: mish@vms.macc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Sorry, no philosophy allowed here. Message-ID: <229@dogie.edu> Date: 10 May 88 17:31:38 GMT Sender: news@dogie.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 22 In article <414@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes... >In article <1069@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk >(Gilbert Cockton) says: >> If you can't write it down, you cannot possibly program it. > >Not so. I can write programs that I could not write down on paper >because I can use other programs to so some of the work. So I might >write programs that are too long, or too complex, to write on paper. YACC Lives! I've written many a program that included code 'written' by some other program (namely YACC). The point is that the computer allows us to extend what we know. I may not have actually written the code, but I knew how to tell the computer to write the code. In doing so, I created a program that I never (well, almost never) could have written myself even though I knew how _____________________ ____________________________ ___________________ \ / \ / Tom \ / Bit: mish@wiscmacc \ / Univ. Of Wis. Mish X Arpa: mish@vms.macc.wisc.edu X Madison Jr. / \ Phone: (608) 262-8525 / \ MACC _____________________/ \____________________________/ \___________________