Yeah, the linguistic analogy serves the best, I think. In addition,
when one abjures the religious analogy, one avoids any possible moral
consequences prescribed by a given dogma. Brings to mind one of my
favorite lines from "Fiddler On The Roof," to wit, "How can they both
be right?"
Dean
On May 22, 2009, at 10:03 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 7:07 AM -0400 5/22/09, dhbailey wrote:
Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Yeah ... it's kind of like finding a church you like.
Sort of -- usually with finding a church you like, that's where
you stay, rather than finding two different churches you like and
alternating worship services between the two.
Perhaps not the best analogy, since that's exactly what some split-
religion families do to expose their children to both religions.
Of course the Catholic church insists on children being raised
Catholic, but then the Catholic church insists on a lot of things
that practicing Catholics with functioning brain cells don't follow.
But with notation software, there's nothing preventing people from
being fluent in both Finale and Sibelius and enjoying working with
them both, using whichever one seems to be easier for whatever
project is on the table.
Yes, which makes your language analogy much better. Although for
truly native, non-accented speech the different languages really
have to be learned from infancy. Gee, does that mean some people
use Sibelius with a Finale accent?!!!
John
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