On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:45:02PM -0800, Darren New wrote:
> If every person who wrote a chess program understood completely how to
> play chess, we wouldn't have systems like Big Blue. If every person who
> wrote a program that generates music understood completely everything
> about generating music, we wouldn't need composers any more.

Are you equating simply *attempting* to write software
with successfully writing 100% correct fully functional software?

A better example would be, "If you wrote a calculator program that always gave
the right answer would that mean you completely understand the *rules* of
arithmetic?" And the answer would be yes.

cs

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