Joe Marshall  <prunesquallor@comcast.net> wrote:
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| There seems to be a common conception that `programming is easy,
| anyone can do it'.  But programming is an art and the problem isn't
| `doing it', but `doing it well'.
...
| The fact is, programming a computer well is *damn hard* and probably
| *is* beyond the capabilities of the `foot soldier' programmer.
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I hate to sound like a broken record by dragging out Dijkstra quotes
again so soon [barely two months ago, oddly enough in response to
something else you wrote], but as he said[1]:

        "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied
        mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure
        mathematicians."


-Rob

[1] Edsger W. Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" (1975)
    <URL:http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF>
    <URL:http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html>

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