2014/10/23 16:48 "Chris Bannister" <[email protected]>: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:29:13AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > (Sorry about double-pumping a couple of posts.) > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 06:22:30, Joel Rees wrote: > > >> > > >> Ever seen a ball of yarn? > > > > > > Yep. Disentangled a few. Not a monolith. :) > > > > Ever considered the molecular structure of obsidian, marble, or granite? > > > > Pushing the metaphor a bit far, but then so is my question about yarn, > > and so was your question about a monolith being entangled. > > > > While I'm on the subject, diamond's hardness is derived in great part > > from the interconnection between the crystals. But that's still not > > really the kind of "hardness" we want in an init system. > > Mixing one's metaphors and analogies can quickly get you climbing up the > wrong ladder.
Depends on what's guiding your selection and interpretation. I'm wondering, Andrei, about your declining to name a favorite or familiar programming language. You say you've written some short scripts. Do any of them have an on-line existence? -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.
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