From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Thaddeus L. Olczyk" Subject: Re: Technical Professionals and the humnaities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Date: 1997/07/20 Message-ID: <01bc95a2$2fb28340$287b7b7a@tlo2>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 257865779 References: <33C61545.167EB0E7@tower.com> <33cfa566.539361@news.deltanet.com> <33CECAB3.2AB8@sig.please> <5qnchq$ft$5@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Paul Johnson wrote in article <5qnchq$ft$5@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com>... > In article <33CECAB3.2AB8@sig.please>, look@sig.please says... > > [On Richard Feynman] > > >OK, he wasn't a computer scientist, but it's interesting anyway. > > Actually he was, in later years. He did some consulting for Thinking > Machines. I saw a TV programme where one of the people at TM talked > about Feynman's work with them. Apparently Feynman proposed an > improved architecture for the machine after doing some maths that > involved the number of 1s in the computer. > Interesting. Feynam wrote a book about programming. I've been debating buying it, but have put it off due to the "too much to read" phenomena. Now I've got to reconsider.