From: Arpan <arpan@...>
Date: 2006-01-31T06:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...'


> Thanks James,
> As the old saying goes, if you put a million red-necks in front of a 
> million typewriters, one of them will eventually write Unix.  If you put 
> two million red-necks in front of two million typewriters, would two of 
> them write Unix?  More likely one would write BSD, and another would 
> write some other flavor of *nix.  My point is that simultaneous 
> equivalent acts of genius makes for a good urban legend, but seems 
> rather unlikely.  

I don't think that they would be considered acts of Genius. If they were 
in front of a typewriter, all the code that they write would be useless. 
:-)


> There would be differences between the two creations - 
> enough that one of them would be found to be preferable by the common 
> man in the street.

Again, both would be sets of useless code on paper. Both would be useful 
for the same thing, recycling. (or firewood) :-)

Remember, just typing something is not enough. There needs to be 
something to interpret what was typed.

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