students editing output

[Bruce Israel]

In article <1051 at hou2h.UUCP> mr at hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) writes:
>Sort of a flame.
>If the assignment is simple enough to be calculated by hand, then it
>is nonsensical to assign a person to perform this on a computer. One of
>the duties of a professor of computer science is also to teach when,
>and when not to use a computer for a given task.
>end of flame.

Oh, gimme a break!  By this logic, the only programs that should ever
be written on a computer are heavy number-crunching programs!
Obviously spreadsheets to keep financial books or balance checkbooks
are unnecessary, as well as database programs (its just as easy to
store info on paper), Expert systems (most of the time the experts can
do the inferencing in their heads in a fraction of the time), Screen
editors (I obviously can do these editing functions by hand, on paper),
as well as most other computer applications.
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Bruce Israel   
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