| 1 |
Paul Bredbury wrote: |
| 2 |
>> Go find a mathematician and discuss this matter with him. Tell him what you told |
| 3 |
>> me, and he will slap you with a large frying pan. |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> Here's a non-programming example, to make things clearer. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> It's a sunny Sunday, and Fred is watching a labourer trying to build a |
| 8 |
> house with a shovel. An hour later, Jane comes along and asks Fred |
| 9 |
> whether the labourer has built any houses *with* that shovel. |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> Fred does not say: |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> "Hang on! With *that* shovel? I dunno. Possibly. Who can say?" |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> Fred does say: |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> "Dudess, that labourer hasn't built any houses." |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> Implicit in that is: |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> "Dudess, regardless of the building tool, no houses have been built." |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
Look, you can introduce a thousand other metaphors, it won't prove your point |
| 24 |
more right. We don't need metaphors to understand what you want to say. Fact is |
| 25 |
just that so far 5 people disagree with you and zero agree with you. So maybe |
| 26 |
you should just accept that 5 times more people think another solution is more |
| 27 |
appropriate and stop inventing nice stories. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
</rant> |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
-- |
| 32 |
Kind Regards, |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
Simon Stelling |
| 35 |
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
| 36 |
-- |
| 37 |
gentoo-portage-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives