Re: [xml-dev] FYI: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, 11 May 1930 -- 6 August 2002

["Jim Keohane" <jimkeo@multi-platforms.com>]

Hmmmm. I think I recognize that old TCAM system that handled the box car
switching. {smile}   It's still running!

   - Jim Keohane

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Haarman" <mhaarma@socsci.umn.edu>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 16:30
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] FYI: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, 11 May 1930 -- 6 August
2002


> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>
> > So programming skill comes down to toilet training.
>
> Or finding efficient ways to appear housebroken.<grin/>
>
>
> Pointedly, the programming task is to manage complexity efficiently, not
> to eliminate an irreducible, inherent inefficiency.  Note that the savings
> from halving the number of pots is eaten up by the necessity of an
> occasional extra car.
>
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