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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by riffraff on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:32AM (#9538410)
relevant:

> When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan [0] replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland

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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by a_bonobo on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:28AM (#9538729)
Or to quote Beyer's Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age:

>Common sense would dictate that the most experienced programmers should have been assigned to these difficult tasks, but, as Hopper glibly explained, young people did not know that they were supposed to fail.

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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by ctdonath on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @01:21PM (#9540482)
They're not hard. They're things we'd expect a solid CS student grok in one year.

He just happened to be the first to grok them. Question is how he came to face those problems without any apparent precedent.

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