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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <11b9qna$pqb8$1@dont-email.me>,  <boltar@battlestar.co.uk> wrote:
>David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>And people /do/ use concepts, even if you do not.
>
>Yeah, on university CS courses. They're just more metaprogramming fucking
>about and add nothing of actual value for the jobbing programmer trying to
>solve a problem.

I kind of thought that way once.  Then I worked with someone who decided
to solve a problem that was NP-hard.  I mentioned to him, "you know this is
NP-hard, you'll never make it work for a reasonable number of elements"
but he was convinced there was a solution.  He worked on it for about a year
before getting fired.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."