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Date:      Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:48:53 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix
Message-ID:  <3CACE665.C04A88BB@mindspring.com>
References:  <007c01c1db91$63596b70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <A0B14BDC-47B2-11D6-BF98-003065D5E9A4@carrel.org> <20020404082044.A16114@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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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

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