Re: REST vs the rest and other angels on pinheads

Interestingly, weeds are typically the dominant members of an ecosystem:)

Christopher Ferris
Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: [email protected]
phone: +1 508 234 3624

[email protected] wrote on 09/20/2002 03:29:43 PM:

> 
> +1
> 
> > I realize that most of you are probably engineers, and this may sound
> > horrible,
> > but I think of what we're doing as horticulture rather than 
> > engineering:  We
> > have been asked to take on the job of restoring a tangled, overgrown,
> > weed-infested garden to some reasonably neat and usable condition.  We 

> > can
> > identify the species of the various plants, trim the bushes, clean out 

> > the
> > fountains, lay down new pathways, apply weedkiller in some areas and
> > fertilizer in others ... but we can't bulldoze the mess and start over 

> > with
> > a clean design.
> 
> And let's recognize that one person's "weed" may be another's
> "established and valued part of the ecosystem".  ;-)
>