Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[David Betz]

Care to share it with us? It sounds intriguing.

On Mar 25, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

>> "Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will
>> again."  - Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Wrong, and wrong.  Where did they get that bizarre notion?
>
> The biggest reason why I don't think that I should retire yet -
> I teach an assembly language class.
>
>
> They're LISP (actually "SCHEME") fanatics.
>
> They demo'd an example that "can not possibly be solved in ANY way
> but recursion".  While they were keying it in in Scheme, I wrote
> out a non-recursive solution (with a 2D array) in C, BASIC, FORTRAN,
> and I got halfway through writing the COBOL form.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com
>