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8/9/2002 3:50:37 PM, Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...> wrote: >Here's his lovely parable about toilets on trains: > >http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/burros/ewd594.htm > "Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point." The implications ... the profound implications ... So, what happens when technologies are designed by mathematicians according to specs from managers but implemented by people who find dealing with the resulting chaos a delightful challenge? :~)
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