On 24-Feb-09 13:14:36, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Dimitris, > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100 > Dimitris Rizopoulos <d.rizopou...@erasmusmc.nl> wrote: > >> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized >> by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, >> and it happens almost everywhere in life. [...] > > Beautifully summarised and I completely agree. Not surprisingly, > others don't. > > [...] >> To close I'd like to share with you a Greek saying (maybe also a >> saying in other parts of the world) that goes, for every rule there >> is an exception. [...] > > As far as I know, the same saying exist in English. It definitely > exist in German. Actually, in German it is "every rule has its > exception including this rule".
Or, as my mother used to say, "Moderation in all things!" To which, as I grew up, I adjoined " ... including moderation." Ted. > In German there is one grammar rule > that does not have an exception. At least there used to be one; I am > not really sure whether that rule survived the recent reform of the > German grammar rules. > > Cheers, > Berwin -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Feb-09 Time: 14:44:21 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
