From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 4 15:43:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E32B37B417 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0517.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.7] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16tGsw-0004Yx-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:43:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3CACE4FF.16DCF023@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:42:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > D) People who write code in a professional manner are smart. > > Probably correct, but this doesn't affect any of the above. "Smart > people write code in a professional manner" would be significant, if > it were true. > > To summarize: > > A) Microsoft developers are smart > B) Microsoft developers don't document their code > C) Microsoft does not require developers to document their code > D) Programmers who document their code are smart > > There are no conclusions possible based on the above four premises. That's because D is formulated incorrectly; it's made up of an incorrect syllogism: i) programmers who document their code are smart ii) therefore all documented code is written by smart programmers c.v.: i) a trout is a fish ii) therefore all fish are trout The correct (D) is: D) Developers who are smart document their code. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message