You are absoluteley right Buckaroo. The other day I did something as simple as attempt to beat the government conspiracy to find the highest prime. All I wanted to do is write a script to find the highest prime and print it. It's SOOO easy to do in my head, but as a Perl script, it threw me for a loop (hehe).

This experienced just re-enforced the importance of thinking about the algorithm for me. I remember one Meditation that said, "Think about the algorithm, not the language." Although one also has to think about the language, I think that thinking about algorithms is very important (duh)...more important than most people think.

redmist

In reply to RE: it is amazing sometimes how little you know... by redmist
in thread it is amazing sometimes how little you know... by Buckaroo Buddha

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