In message , "dennis@home"
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"Tim S" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher coughed up some electrons that declared:

The phsicists and scientists thought about it first THEN rippoed off te
code, took a bit longer and produced a better result.

Spooky - that's what I do...

When I was coding in the early '80s there wasn't any code to rip off.
We had to do it from scratch.
The code you rip off is probably the stuff we wrote.

You're a laugh a minute dennis


The best software designer/writer I knew at the time was a zoologist BTW.
When we (GEC) were recruiting we didn't care what degree people had as
long as they could think.

Unless it was a Ph.D

Even then a lot of graduates couldn't think.
I did notice the low regard for software degrees though.
The largest group had degrees in physics.

We're the creme de la creme denboi



We were a bit atypical though as we also designed the hardware and
would sometimes change the hardware as it was easier than changing the
software.

We also did things like designing in hardware to trace execution of
code so we could see what was happening without having to single step
stuff (not much use on multiprocessor real time systems).

Like most small early development teams denboi

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geoff