Re: [FWP] For your amusement

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Andy Lester wrote:
>It's a shame that so many highly intelligent folks on the net (as well as
>the in the Real World) insist on speaking in only the most strident,
>abrasive, absolute terms.

To be quite blunt--people who say this don't get it. Everyone should
be exposed to a few first-rate thinkers. I was lucky to have been, in
a limited way, and I know that extreme beliefs and abrasive terms are
the *norm*, generally smarting under more or less haphazard restraints.
In other words, being nice is not easy, and this should be recognized.

Programmers have it especially bad, because they are in a Renaissance 
situation right now. The Renaissance was partly about painters, sculptors
etc driving out their old status as contract workers and getting themselves
recognized as creative artists. Consequently, you will see many "strident,
abrasive, absolute" terms coming out of highly intelligent folks around
that time. (While the world wondered why, say, a skilled craftsman like
Botticelli said "screw your spec, I paint what I want to or here's your
commission back"...) This irascibility of programmers is to be thought
of in the same way.


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