On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:03:52 +0900, Curt Fischer <crf3@po.cwru.edu>
wrote:


>
>Thanks for your exhaustive response.  It appears that I have been
>systematically miseducated by a number of professors and widely used
>textbooks throughout my career as a Sepponian engineering student. 
>Sorry for anything incorrect I may have said.  
>
>Secondly, Google reveals that you have dedicated a large portion of your
>usenet presence to proselytize these facts to the multitudes.  Why such
>tenacity?

Because this miseducation is a widespread, institutional problem--one
that keeps cropping up all over the place.

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/