Re: examination of C hackers (was Conway's Game of Life (cellular automata))

[Michael Vanier <mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu>]

> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:11:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>
> 
> Michael, you're confusing two different things.  You're talking about
> building up a larger program piece-by-piece (at least, that's what
> your example suggests).  Matthias is talking about the process of
> building each of those pieces.  Therefore, the issue of "It's probably
> not as detailed as your design recipes but it provided a lot of
> guidance" isn't relevant -- what Matthias is describing is not *more*
> guidance, it's entirely *different*.
> 
> Perhaps people at Caltech really ought to *read* HtDP, now that you've
> tried and disposed of it. (-:  <-- type annotation
> 
> Shriram
> 

I'll read it!  I'm heading down to the bookstore *this very second* to go
pick it up.

Yes-I'm-serious-ly y'rs,

Mike