
10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
7:58 p.m.
Peter wrote:
David Bergman wrote:
There seem to be two schools here: (1) the Standardists,
striving to
follow The Standard verbatim, and (2) the Pragmatics, trying to see how different mechanisms would affect their daily struggles with real problems.
Sorry, that's nonsense. Nobody in the world is (1), and the only reason to bring up this hypothetical school division is as an excuse to write broken code that happens to work today.
Thanks, I love it when someone labels another person's observations as nonsensical. In fact, I sometimes pertain to that Standardist school, so they are not necessarily schools with full-time alumni. /David