> It's like when you see programmers doing arithmetic in their heads. "You're sitting in front of a glorified calculator!" At the company where I work, most en

> It's like when you see programmers doing arithmetic in their heads. "You're sitting in front of a glorified calculator!" At the company where I work, most engineers have real, actual calculators on their desks. I think I even saw a slide rule once. So they sit there, sometimes, doing arithmetic on their calculators and then type the results into an Excel spreadsheet.