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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> If you don't<br>> know how big your arrays are and how many you need before you start, then you
<br>> don't understand your problem well enough. Dynamic allocation is a sign of<br>> weak will, or worse.<br><br><speechless gape></blockquote>
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<div>I just deleted so much that I've lost attribution, but y'all know who you are :-)</div>
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<div>Of course I don't understand my problem well enough. I'm much more interested in writing programs that solve problems which I myself cannot; than merely write programs what solve problems faster than I can, because electricity is faster than pencil and paper.
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<div>People used to say alot that a computer can "only" do what it was programmed to do; in an Old Star Trek, Spock knows that somebody tampered with the ship computer, because he beat it at chess, but since he programmed it to play chess himself, it should always draw.
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<div>Belle, built by Ken, eventually outrated him by about two standard deviations of tournament performance.</div>
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<div>Peter</div><br> </div>