>> Hmm, yes. I'm just trying to visualise that now... What would I do if I
>> had no idea what I'm doing? (I guess the question is, how many of these
>> programs ever *worked*?)
>
> Mind you, these people generally knew the pythagorean formula to do the
> job (after all, they were university students.) They still managed to
> break the 100-line mark.

OK, ouch. Pythagoras and you're *still* getting this wrong??

Mind you, I recall an incident at university where our lecturer wrote 
the Shannon channel theorem on the board, and everyone was like "woah, 
what the heck does 'log' mean?" And the guy was like "oh, I'm sorry, I 
just expected that 3rd year computer science students would know what a 
logarithm is."

It turns out that only two people in the room knew what that actually 
is. One of them was obviously me. Weirdly, the other one was the crazy 
Mancunian rugby lout. It's the first (and last) time I ever saw him say 
something sensible. And it wasn't like he had a vague idea... he seemed 
to actually know what he was talking about. I guess there really *is* 
more to that guy than I first imagined.

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