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> But a good article. Keep posting the URL > when you do updates so I can keep reading > them. I can't of course, "handle" them. > > To complete the thought: > > > Too often, philosophers are programmers without > > hands and programmers are philosophers without eyes. > > Blind programmers lead handless philosophers > to deep pools where the philosopher must walk > on water because he cannot swim. > If the programmer follows the philosopher, he > drowns because he blindly tries to hold on to the > feet of the philosopher. Ha! If Bronzino were a writer rather than a painter, I think he might have come up with just such an allegory. > Don't do anything subversive in the article > on my account. I concur with your editor: > some people actually have to see and handle themselves > while keeping their feet dry and their hands > to themselves. But you see, that's the subversive part. They might not even know they're being baptized. Course if I can pull it off, I'm changing careers. > The humanML > list will provide me all the water walking > practice I need this year. OK. I was not entirely sure HumanML was not a joke... -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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