RE: Moving on

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. B. Rainsberger [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [XC] Moving on
> 
> In a way, yes. I do not build software in a test tube. 
> Academic studies may help answer the question, "How does this 
> work?" They may answer the question, "Why does this work?" 
> But they cannot answer the simpler and more important 
> question, "Does this work?" Only real-life experience can 
> answer that question.

A:Don't touch the furnace, it is hot.
A:Don't touch it.
B:Ouch.
A:I told you not to touch it.  I guess you learnt?

I don't belief so much in real-life experience at least not for those
aspects in which cause and effect are not that easily linked.
I think that test tubes and academic studies help in the sense that they
have controlled contexts in which it is easier to establish the links
between causes and effects.
So, if we have contexts that can be transposed then we may have value from
test tube and academic studies.

"People who want to believe are easily fooled"

> 
> 
> J. B. Rainsberger,
> President, Diaspar Software Services
> Let's write software that people understand.
> http://www.diasparsoftware.com/
> telephone: +1 416 791-8603
> All correspondence (c) 2002 Diaspar Software Services.
> If you want to use it, just ask; don't steal.

Regards, STefan Steurs.


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