Mr Geissbuehler, Different kinds of people having very different views of the world come together here. They would seldom have much to say to, or even encounter, each other elsewhere; and this sometimes makes communication difficult.
We are all creatures of our experience, and we experience the same things differently. I recently monitored the development of a hospital general-ledger system that I had designed for a client, friend, and classmate. I used the same techniques in doing so that I should use in building a LISP interpreter or a transaction processor. Functional objectives do not, in my view, dictate processing strategies at all. Cultures dictate them. Business systems are mostly without explicit design because the tradition in which they are built takes other approaches to its problems. My diction is mine. I am unlikely to change it at my age, and I am not at all sure that I could do so even if I wanted to. Moreover, there is a simple remedy available to anyone who he distressed by it. He or she need not read my posts or even see them. Kill lists exist to permit anyone of us to dispense with even seeing boring or noxious posts. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
