On 30/12/2008, at 10:57 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:19:58AM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote:
On 30/12/2008, at 9:51 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
Damien has a significant head-start on us all with
CouchDB and Lotus Notes before it, so if I was going to trust
anyone's
intuition
it would be his.
IMO the principles here have nothing to do with either Couch or
Notes.
They have more to do with general API design principles. I have 31
years
experience with issues like this, in a very wide variety of
languages and
contexts, but I'm not asking anyone to accept anything I assert on
that
basis.
Are we professional engineers or mystics?
Come on, I clearly outlined my position. Please don't
mischaracterise me.
IMO you are asserting intuition over reason, which doesn't feel like
engineering to me.
In any case, I didn't mean it personally, sorry.
Antony Blakey
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