i agree the computer industry as a whole tends to be long on dogma and yet suffers from an accute inability to recall previous mistakes.
> For some reason, the fact that we program rational machines in logic- > based languages deludes us into thinking our experience is the same as > everyone else's or our situation must be the same as everyone else's. > I don't know anyone who likes to debate a programmer and isn't also a > programmer; we are undoubtedly the most self-assured and non- > empathetic group of people on the planet. We have every opportunity to > be free of dogma, but our reason and our aesthetic reactions seem > somehow to be soldered directly onto our emotions. but having lived in washington, dc for a decade, i think i met a few groups that can be more self-assured. - erik
