Hey, thanks for the research and pointers. Please, any time. Eric and I appear to agree on this word "smooth" -- unless his position has changed some since 2003. I'm not a catastrophist, waiting for everything to "break down" so something "big" might happen. I'm more into "upgrade while getting work done" type scenarios -- processing in the background.
I also read the article he cites, pointing out that "paradigm changes" are the exception, not the rule. Just look at operations research. Kirby On 1/28/07, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject line is Eric Raymond's title of an entry at > > http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2003_07_27_armedndangerous_archive.html > > I don't read a lot of Raymond, and don't consider myself a libertarian > of his stripe, but a somwhat out-of-context quote I enjoyed from this > article: > > """ > There are some books so bad, but so plausible and influential, that > periodically trashing them in public is almost an obligation. The really > classic stinkeroos of this kind, like Karl Marx's Das Kapital, exert a > weird kind of seduction on otherwise intelligent people long after their > factual basis has been completely exploded. > """ > > I don't think it possible to separate the special role that history held > for the intellectual in Marxism, and the tendencies of those who > considered themselves intellectuals to give his thinking undue weight. > > I think the same is true with Kayianism and the geek. > > > Art > > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
