On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Smith wrote: >> >> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>> >>> "I probably didn't capture it well and Alan wasn't specific, but two >>> things I understood he thought ought to be taught first were parallelism >>> and loose coupling. He mentioned that the Internet is more about those >>> two things that it is about data structures and algorithms." >>> >> >> Interestingly, those were pretty much what first and second year computer >> science (admittedly with data structures and algorithms trickled in) >> programs at the schools I went to were about. > > You know, I love this. Everybody talks about the "loose coupling" of the > internet. > > It is--in places. > > Unfortunately, everybody forgets that TCP/IP is two state machines on > different computers that are in *absolute lockstep* with one another. > > Not exactly loose coupling ... > > -a
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