Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:41:43 +0900
"Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> On 16/03/2008, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >  The true CS students do not need to know how to program.
> >  They learn how to abstract the process of programming to
> >  the point of making programmers obsolete.
> >                 -- Jabber in #holo
> 
> Heh heh. How's that abstraction coming?

Fortunately, i'm not a CS student. I studied EE and thus
don't have to abstract anything but can use the practical
and simple approximations at the working point ;-)

> Programmers will never be obsolete because specification in sufficient
> detail for the machine to solve the problem is difficult, and
> debugging said specification is harder still. :)

Never say never. Especially not for a profession that didn't
even exist half a century ago ;-)

			Attila Kinali

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