On Dec 17, 2007 11:02 PM, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess you have no fear of a Disruptive Technology biting you in the ass. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology > I prefer to keep my eye on the 8-ball. > http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi
Related to "Disruptive Technology" is Kuhn's concept of a "Paradigm Shift." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift I find the following passage compelling with respect to "young bucks," who haven't necessarily grown up with "crappy" make tools, plain C, or even C++. "Sometimes the convincing force is just time itself and the human toll it takes, Kuhn said, using a quote from Max Planck: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."" Technology generations in computerdom are capable of being exceedingly long or exceedingly short. It really depends. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
