"I am miles away from Eric..." ESR "grandpa" was at the Wharton Computer Center when I was there. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/resume.html http://www.catb.or

"I am miles away from Eric..." ESR "grandpa" was at the Wharton Computer Center when I was there. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/resume.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/resume.html At Wharton, at the time, this was definitely true: "When you were in college, did you ever meet bright kids who graduated top of their class in high-school and then floundered freshman year in college because they had never learned how to study? It's a common trap. A friend of mine calls it "the curse of the gifted"" I was lucky that I had to work hard in high school. I definitely noticed a bunch of kids that were actually depressed when they were surrounded by others equally gifted and got their first "b" grade. No adversity experience. [1] APL was big back then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29