Re: Religian (was:Iraq

On 27 Sep, 19:24, spamb...@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote:
> In article <1190916363.779875.220...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Alistai
r <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> I know several Catholics who would regard that as a challenge, rather than
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> I've not noticed much, if any, correlation between programming ability and
> religious affiliation: the best programmers I know are a couple of Catholi
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> religion I never knew. The worst ones are a couple of Catholics, two
> evangelicals, an atheist, and a reincarnationist.
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> OTOH, IME there *does* seem to be a *strong* positive correlation between
> programming ability and affinity for classical music, especially Handel an
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> Regards,
>         Doug Miller (alphag at milmac dot com)
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A well-written program is like a well-constructed song. Maths and
music seem (to me) to be much the same; so: why is it that the world's
worst programmer (apart from myself) had a joint first-class degree in
maths and computing (I think from Cambridge, UK)?