the new math: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3604

I know.

I know.

Theoreticians create new proofs or logics using the above tools. They work on stuff that hasn't been done ever before. They help build a particular geometry or algebra or something else. Each individual's piece of work is usually filling a hole in the mortar of brick building. It usually take a stroke of geniun combined with intestinal forbreastude to create a new set of rules. An example is Reinmann(sp?) and Euclidean geometry and the histories.

The number one lesson that should be learned in computing, and in all other walks of life, is that nothing happens instantly just because you wish for it. There is a physical reason this is true and nothing can be done about. You can't throw money at it; you can't put people in jail for not making it happen; and it cannot be made to work.

Boy, I never settled for packaging it away. I had to find out.

You seem to have lost curiosity at the time. I'm already twitching from wanting to know what went wrong, how it went wrong, and if it can be fixed.

That's called kindergarten and terribly boring to me.

Well, you might have learned how to play. That was a problem with canned poo.

Oh, c'mon. You really cannot appreciate this knowledge? It's the caues of most human troubles.

Yes there is! How do you think new science happens? Something comes out that doesn't match expected results.

No, the science biz is something like developing an OS one patch at a time. There is no write a bunch of code, throw it up on the system, then tweak it.

Yes and none of the above.

BAH