On Mon, February 11, 2008 8:28 pm, Darren New wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> where he basically says you don't really understand nor communicate
>> something unambiguously until you do it in software.
>
> Because, ya know, nobody ever writes software that does the wrong thing
> because they don't understand what problem they're trying to solve when
> they start. :-)
>
> Logically speaking, of course, it's possible nobody understands anything
> and Sussman could still be right, but I think he's implying that writing
> it in software means you understand.
>

Old Scandanavian proverb: "The first pancake should be thrown away."

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