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Re: FP in a nutshell (was Re: intelligence is a search for

Ketil Malde

2004-08-24, 4:41 pm

Dave Benjamin <ramen@lackingtalent.com> writes:
> In article <k5nmi0pa8ruhftn3olglp0bhglmg6t5cs1@4ax.com>, zz wrote:
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> "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
> you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
> -- Howard Aiken

Bjarne Stroustrup said something to the effect of AT&T being a much
greater consumer than producer of software, so for them it would be
more advantageous to spread software technology improvements as much
as possible. (Okay, he was talking about C++, but still...:-)

-kzm
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If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

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