Re: examination of C hackers (was Conway's Game of Life (cellular automata))

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>]

Michael, you're confusing two different things.  You're talking about
building up a larger program piece-by-piece (at least, that's what
your example suggests).  Matthias is talking about the process of
building each of those pieces.  Therefore, the issue of "It's probably
not as detailed as your design recipes but it provided a lot of
guidance" isn't relevant -- what Matthias is describing is not *more*
guidance, it's entirely *different*.

Perhaps people at Caltech really ought to *read* HtDP, now that you've
tried and disposed of it. (-:  <-- type annotation

Shriram