Apologies for the incivility. I disagree, the only thing in Laurie's comment as presented is elitist superiority, by quoting it Norvig evidently agrees with th

Apologies for the incivility. I disagree, the only thing in Laurie's comment as presented is elitist superiority, by quoting it Norvig evidently agrees with that attitude "why are you wasting your time doing that when you could write a program to do it instead?". EDIT Whereas IMHO writing a program to solve Sudoku just to prove how superior you are really is *$!%ing pointless.