Judy Perry wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As for some of them being 'authorities', well, remember that two of them claimed that Hypercard was 'a cheap rip-off' or 'knock-off' of Visual Basic...
If you need to embarass 'em you can wait till they say that at a meeting and point out that Visual Basic was prototyped on a Mac using SuperCard (heard it from a Microsoft employee).
--well, actually, I already committed that faux pas... on the very first meeting of my master's group, where the individual did indeed make that grand, sweeping pronouncement. For my astonished stammering to the contrary, I was kinda blacklisted for the full two years of the program. And Mike Swain sending the offending individuals a very, shall we say, *pointed* email advising them of their inaccuracies probably didn't help my social standing, either ;-)
Hmmmm... if that passes for rational process I think there are positions open in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for minds like that:
<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040815/ap_on_sc/bush_scientists_4>
;)
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