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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/26
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Date: 1997-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
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> > Besides ..., I start drawing blanks on who outisde a great expensive
> > lab developed great leaps forward.  Some examples, please?>>
> How about Donald Knuth?  You think maybe he made a little contribution?
  Yes, of course he made a contribution.  The question was who outside
a great expensive lab developed great leaps forward.  If Stanford
University was and is not "a great expensive lab", then what is?
  Note that until the late '70s rather few garages or spare bedrooms
contained computers.  Since then quite a few have.  I asked for some
additional examples of great leaps forward developed by dreamers in
their garage or spare bedroom, as opposed to computer professionals
working at major research universities or industrial labs.
  I enjoy the romantic notion of dreamers in their garrets producing the
paradigm shifting advances in computers as much as the next person,
but I'm having a hard time thinking of many examples.