>>> I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario ...
<shrug> When I think of Leibniz, I think of calculus (and rejoice in the fact that the only calculus I still have to deal with is what the dentist has to jackhammer off my teeth [before it turns into partial differential equations]).
When I think of "the best of all possible worlds," I think of Candide (take your pick: Voltaire, Bernstein, or both), and I think of the old chestnut that "an optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, while a pessimist fears that the optimist is right."
When I went to Long Beach State, we used CDC Cybers. Which was a major culture shock after using an IBM 370/135 (running McGill University MUSIC), going from 8-bit EBCDIC to 6-bit CDC Scientific (with no room in the character set for any control characters!)
Still, if I were going to a school where WinDoze was compulsory, I'd find another school.
-- JHHL
