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From: T Wheeley <tw104@york.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/05/20
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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Wilbur Streett wrote:

> Which is why the typical examples of "Computer Science" created by CS grads
> are such pieces of garbage..  Tell you what, take NT 4.0's backup and
> restore commands and try to back up and restore a file that is larger than
> 1.4 MB.  I'll bet that there were CS grads doing that work.

That was definitely written by someone who's hardly ever had to use a
computer.  

> 
> Theory doesn't get the work done.
> 

No, theory makes the work possible.  If it wasn't for theory you'd still
be programming on the front panel.

:sb)