> Your talk of assembly line workers reminds me of analogies I've read in > engineering books. Many have references to the industrial revolution and > how productivity and efficiency skyrocketed with the use of assembly lines. > But I guess that's only true for uninteresting factory crap.
Like the boxes that run our tools. > > A more appropriate analogy would be hand-made furniture vs. > > the crap you buy > > from a factory. And carpenters are much more interesting people than > > assembly-line workers. (hint-hint) What is fascinating is that forty years ago, it was possible to encase most of the important philosophical questions in an argument between assembler and machine language. The argument repeats itself, although it doesn't seem as tightly focused any more. Too many tools, too many people trying to make their killing off the tools. Too much ignoring all the tools used to build the ones we are now arguing over. And the _most_ important question is still being overlooked. There's something to think about as we approach the weekend. BTW, I like vi better than emacs, but I prefer Codewarrior's editor on the Mac for high-volume work. BBEDIT/perl is also fun. Nothing on MSW is productive for me. No accounting for tastes, is there? Joel Rees -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
