On 2/16/07, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For the same reason that we have physicists, biologists, chemists, etc. (theoretical) and engineers (practical).
Except that in physics, you can theorize something that you can't put into practice. With computers, if you can theorize about something, you can also sit down and write a program that implements the theory almost as easily as you can theorize about it. Insert quote from Fred Brooks about programmers working very closely with pure ideas. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
