On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:09:29AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > The initial rant was about making computer software conform to a > specification.
You're giving me too much credit. :-) I really was advocating something like Arthur Koestler suggested in "Ghost in the Machine" -- evolution does not always progress forward. Sometimes it takes a few steps backward and then takes a giant leap forward. I'm advocating something probably more radical than you comprehend. I was suggesting ditching all known computer designs and solving every solved problem again, because I think as a species we need to. There are some awfully muddle-headed design problems in Computer Science today (the terribly slow speed of memory WRT processor speed) which have us doing a strange kabuke dance. Chuck the baby out with the bathwater I say. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
