Mike Driscoll wrote:
I've never used (or heard of) the Abstract type...and the guy who
wrote the FAQ was being a jerk.
Who, Peter Norvig?
(from wikipedia)
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the
Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.
He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the standard college text. He
previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the
Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he
oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and
development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and
data analysis, neuroengineering, collaborative systems research, and
simulation-based decision-making. Before that he was Chief Scientist at
Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison
shopping services; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc.; and Senior
Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
etc. etc.
Yes, I usually look up in wikipedia before calling anyone a jerk :) :)
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