Dependence on Programming Experts

[Judy Perry]

Hmmm... I guess I *used* to think that way...

Then my Dad let me use one of his/early?? HP brick RPN calculators.

Now I can't remember how I think.

Here's another example:

Here's the number of formatting styles I've had to "learn" over the years
in academia:

Chicago Style
Harvard Style
AP Style
APA Style
Whatever's-Used for Legal Style
Whatever's-Used for Scientific Writing

And probably a few others I can't even remember anymore.

Result?

I can't write citations and bibliography references to save my soul.
They've all merged into this shapeless,  useless mishmash of "styles" such
that if I want to submit something for publication, I have to hire
somebody to do the formatting.

Judy

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:

> No wonder we are thinking that way! We have been taught mathematics since
> the first grade at shool :-) and all think about 3=2+1 or 1+2=3 but not put
> 2 add 1 into 3... Later (grade 3, I think) we have been taught a bit about
> equations. So at the age of 9 most of us would have easily solved this:
> Solve: y=x*2
> Given: x=10
> ---------------
> Answer: y=20