THE Albemarle Committee put for7" ward the idea of adolescents as the ^tmus paper of a society, thus suggesting that to understand the problems ?f the adolescents would be to see something of the larger problems of society in which they find themselves. The authors of Teenage Tyranny,1 tv^o American journalists with a sPecial interest in educational matters, jake a hard, realistic look at the "...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 R I. DEFOE AS MYTH-MAKER, COGNATE, AND PRECEDENT . . . . . . 79 R II. FROM THE PROMISE TO THE TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 R A. A Serious Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 R B. Party-Tyranny . . . . . . . . ...

High-level languages have much to offer the hardware designer. Freed of the tyranny of gates, it is possible to approach circuit function in terms of the algorithm or protocol it implements. Design rule checking and gate-level optimizations are becoming impossible for large designs without computer assistance anyway, the argument goes, so why not delegate all low-level design and synthesis to t...