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and 99% of what we program (from GJS or Knuth or someone like that)

link: http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403

this google video is also cool: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616&q=gerald+sussman

anyone have any sussman stories they'll like to share?

"and 99% of what we program"

That seems consistent w/the "95% of what we teach" number. As Douglas Adams wrote, a computer "...was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil. ... And the more slow, and dim-witted the pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming."

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