On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Walter Bright<[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> Yeh, it's like what's the big diff between a Lamborghini and a Chevy >> Nova anyway? They both have four tires. They both run on gas. So >> what's all the fuss about the Lamborghini? > > It's like a car from the 60's vs a car today. It's hard to see what's really > different, until you spend time driving one. There's just a boatload of > little improvements in everything that add up to a lot. > > It's no surprise that most people who fix up those old cars also upgrade the > systems with modern technology.
That's a better analogy. Or like the guy who works on my bicycle was telling me just this week before he got started trying to fix the thing I was complaining about. "In an ideal world every bike would be a $7000 bike." That's because basically everything is built to higher tolerances on a $7000 bike and everything just works exactly like it's supposed to. D is a lot like that $7000 bike -- except, thankfully, for the price tag. --bb
