From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 4 15:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A32837B417 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0517.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.7] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16tGyj-0000K6-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:49:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3CACE665.C04A88BB@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:48:53 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix References: <007c01c1db91$63596b70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020404082044.A16114@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis wrote: > There's a rather significant fallacy in your argument. What you write > for D is "if people write code in a professional manner, then they are > smart." That's probably generally true. What you implied you said in > the last paragraph is "if someone is smart, then they write code in a > professional manner" which is absolutly, positivity, beyond any shadow > of a doubt, FALSE. I know, I work with code written by scientists. I was wondering how long it would take before this thread made it to a discussion of the disctinction between "smart" and "wise"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message