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To: bentway who wrote (462466)	3/9/2009 8:15:44 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574557

We had to bail out the genius. In his own way, he was an ideolog too! An OO programming purist, he insisted EVERYTHING be an object. He ended up being demoted to a mere engineer. That's pitiful. LOL.

To: bentway who wrote (462466)	3/9/2009 8:49:22 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574557

"An OO programming purist, he insisted EVERYTHING be an object." Heh. Boy, does that sound familiar...

To: bentway who wrote (462466)	3/10/2009 3:14:05 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574557

Bentway, > A startup I worked for hired a guy with a degree (in Music) from MIT and a masters in mathematics from Stanford. Already I can tell what kind of employee he'd turn out to be simply from his majors. Reminds me of when I was trying to learn C and C++ as a college student, since NO class taught it. But hey, they taught Java and Scheme and some custom RTL language that could translate to VHDL (but not VHDL itself). Not very practical in the real world. I guess "geniuses" are supposed to figure it out on their own. Tenchusatsu