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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

> Reza B'Far (eBuilt) wrote:
>  > problems.... Why do most computer scientists insist on solving the
>  > same problems over and over again when there are some many more
>  > important and interesting problems (high level) to be solved ?????
>
> Amen!

Like what exactly? All the problems are in chemisty and physics and biology
and mathematics. We're just enablers :)

> Doing it in an (unecessarily) harder way does NOT make you more of a man
> (or less of a kiddie).

Yes, but doing it an order of magnitude or 2 easier does :) Which with the
way things are now, is not hard at all to do.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com