Prime numbers

Does anyone else find the Sieve of Eratosthenes and the ilk a totally pointless concept?

It like over optimising a Java program that could be written in C in a short space of time.

>>56
Don't insult your opponent's intelligence here. He is obviously quite inexperienced on the subject, and yet he was able to manipulate you into validating his argument.

Your arguments degraded into ad hominem remarks and semantic sophistry, obvious attempts at sidestepping addressing  his arguments head on, presumably after you realized you weren't 100% correct.

I admit it, IHBT