begin quoting Doug LaRue as of Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:07:50AM -0800: > ** Reply to message from "Todd Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 > 12:54:13 -0500 > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think a lot is due to the hugely different ways in which humans and > > > computer hardware think. If the low-level hardware could be designed to > > > "think" more like a human the software job would probably be easier. > > > > Because programming other humans is easy... > > if you start young enough. Look at what many religions have done. Heck we've > got some adults who believe the worlds people are infected with ancient alien > beings. Humans are way easier to 'program' than computers. With a significant corruption rate, and some of those collapse in outright failure (disbelief).
Conversions show a lack of robustness as well. Programming gets easier if failures don't matter so much. -- FAIL! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
