Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2002/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] My attempt to formalize (more comment please?)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:18:17 -0400

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From: William Wright [mailto:w9wright@-----.net]

> But seriously, I don't contend that a certain type of code _is_ best.

You stated such very distinctly, Bill. Whatever else could you have meant?

> Rather, I notice that many people pursue portability (which is one of
> the basic reasons that compilers exist) and universality in many varied
> activities; and in this sense, some people who play music dislike
> extremism in the opposite direction.

Rather than get into a lengthy dissertation with you on what portability or
universality means in the context of computing, I'll drop the subject here.
But be aware that your analogy is tenuous at best, with too many
counterexamples to make much sense.

A closer analogy of music to computer science might be:

Just because something is syntactically correct doesn't mean it's
semantically correct.

I see that one every day ...

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