Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:20:44 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <20020404082044.A16114@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <A0B14BDC-47B2-11D6-BF98-003065D5E9A4@carrel.org>; from william.a@carrel.org on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:59:17AM -0800 References: <007c01c1db91$63596b70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <A0B14BDC-47B2-11D6-BF98-003065D5E9A4@carrel.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:59:17AM -0800, William Carrel wrote: > > A) Microsoft hires mainly smart people > > B) Microsoft develops software in a kit-bash sort of manner without > adequate testing, documentation, and communication between teams > > C) People who write code in a professional manner often quit working for > Microsoft > > I will add a fact that I think should be hard to argue against: > > D) People who write code in a professional manner are smart. > > Either A is false and B, C, and D are true. Or, B and C are false. > Since I have personally witnessed that C is true and I've heard quite a > bit of anecdotal evidence of B from current and former Microsoft > employees, I'm led to believe that A is false. In any case there is a > fallacy of inconsistency in your argument. 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. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rH1cXY6L6fI4GtQRAkMLAJ9bidYkcm+qYItoY1yrA53qRxCcEwCfTAVF AQ8iVvYK0BBZLv9tjIMvH5g= =HVjR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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