On 8/27/2011 10:23, Warp wrote:
>    I wonder how many great programmatical inventions have been lost
> because they were made within the programming industry rather than
> the academia.

Given the impact of academic inventions on practical programming, I wonder 
as well. (Consider, for example, relational databases, P/V semaphores and 
deadlock prevention techniques, parsing/language theory, etc.)  I'm thinking 
that the really big academic discoveries do indeed tend to have a stunning 
impact on practical business, in the form of stuff like RDBMS and parser 
generators and public key encryption and etc.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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