Re: [Slightly OT] Philosophy (was Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?)

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:55, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Ron,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Sam made an "I" statement:
> > > I would also like to point out that some of the most bright persons I 
> > > currently know in the computer field are people who had such early 
> > > experience with computers (Bill Kendrick anyone? The guys a coding 
> > > machine... ;-)
> > 
> > Humph.  Yet again, that's just not true.
> 
> Woah, hold on ...
> 
> > Did Kernigan, Ritchie,
> > Ken Thompson, Bill Joy, RMS, Steve Wozniak, Gary Kildall, shoot,
> > *anyone* from the MIT AI Lab, the TMRC, Stanford AI Lab, Linux,
> > Alan Cox, Donald Becker, or even the people who designed and program-
> > med that PDP-11 or your Atari get exposed to computers at an early 
> > age?
> 
> Sam, are these people you currently know in the computer field? :)

Sam?

I do know that these people weren't exposed to computers at a
young age, because back in the 50's and '60s, computers only existed
in glass rooms and research labs.

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