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Re: RE: FYI: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra,11 May 1930 -- 6 August 200

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• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:02:04 -0400
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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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