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From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:44:18AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> You have a very vivid imagination.

It's not easy to replace imagination with experience.  This takes years,
which I have yet to come upon.  :-)

> Unfortunately, imagination isn't very helpful here; the whole idea is to=
=20
> do stuff that's actually useful, not just what we'd imagine might be=20
> useful.  And in that regard, a *lot* of application  programming (which=
=20
> includes programming for embedded systems) is done using c++ compilers.

As Warner and Wes pointed out, this is certainly true.  I guess I need a
reality check on this.  ;>

--=20
wca

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