At 3:21 PM -0400 on 7/16/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Alain : It is a book about how to form dynamic task-oriented groups
>where everyone is aware of everyone else's skills, experience, etc ...
>Practical but also philosophical. Recommended reading.
>
>Anthony : I don't want to have to OCR every page and plug it into
>babelfish to read a book...
>
>Alain : I don't understand your above comment, Anthony.
Babelfish is Altavista's translation thing. I can't read a word of French.
I hope there is an English translation if I ever get around to reading it.
>> Alain : They are going to turn to someone, that's
>> for sure, because coding in any of its forms is
>> shunned for the most part, and I don't no
>> anyone that is in MM and is also a C++ programmer.
>> It's like oil and water!
>
>Anthony : Hmmm.... I am in an ametuer(sp?) way.
>
>Alain : What? I'm sorry, I don't understand what you wrote above,
>Anthony. Is it a typo??
Well, no, it's that I can't spell <g>. I meant that word which means
someone who does it not as a career, but as a hobby.
>
>Anthony : Yep. And we'll happily take the $100-hour consulting jobs :)
>Mmmm... Capitalism :) (sort of like Homer and a doughnut, aren't I?)
>
>Alain : You are aware, aren't you, that the Simpsons are a SATIRE. They
>are the opposite of role-models. In my opinion, the Simpsons is the
>most important satire in many years (and its hilarious too, for the
>same reason).
Ak! Jokes don't come across to well in email, do they?