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• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which W rite Themselves
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:43:33 -0500
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Roger L. Costello scripsit:

> BTW John, I really liked your paradigm shift on the telephone operator story.
> Can you think of a similar shift with programming?  /Roger

Yes, in fact.  Perhaps ten years ago, I was sitting next to a stranger
on the New York to Boston shuttle.  In casual conversation, she asked
me what I did.  "I'm a computer programmer", said I.  She said, not
unusually, "Oh, I don't know anything about programming", but then
added in the same breath "except for some Excel and Basic."  I had
an epiphany: the world had changed.

(I felt similarly when I first saw the URL on a bottle of Snapple.)

-- 
You escaped them by the will-death              John Cowan
and the Way of the Black Wheel.                 jcowan@r...
I could not.  --Great-Souled Sam                http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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  • RE: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which Write Themselves
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Re: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which W rite Themselves
    • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
  • Re: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which W rite Themselves
    • From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>

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