From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-07 02:51:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Intelligence, was: Clause "with and use" Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:54:03 +0100 Message-ID: <0mtmqvsker4h2d4p7p16vn970mf02ndpii@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1068202318 47701743 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2196 Date: 2003-11-07T11:54:03+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:07:44 GMT, "Anders Wirzenius" wrote: > wrote in message >news:mailman.290.1068108838.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... >> "Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler" wrote: >> >> > Russ wrote: >> > >Do you have any idea what that says >> > >about your intelligence? >> > >> > Referring to some other posting from you that follow the same >style, >> > I'd say: "Yes, I am an idiot." Satisfied? >> > >> > >You might as well just blurt out, "I'm an idiot". >> > >> > Well, and after all I've read from you, you might as well say, >"All >> > Ada programmers are idiots". Be it so. >> >> Well said :-) I know I'm an idiot, too, but I like it... >> > >So be it. >I don�t consider me to be an idiot and I think other�s opinions about >me as an idiot or not don�t count very high in my priorities. A person >with a lower IQ is usually happy with himself until "corrected" by >another person. > >Wasn�t Vincent Van Gogh mentally ill? But he made lovely paintings! Painting does not require the mental power which people usually called idiots lack. An idiot could well be a genial painter or writer. I would say that a truly great one also should be, to some extent. >Wasn't Beethoven deaf when he wrote his ninth symphony? As for this particular case, he wasn't an idiot! >Why cannot an idiot write excellent code? Put it otherwise. What is the probability that a piece of an excellent code was written by an idiot? >I somewhere read about an intelligence investigation that considered >some jungle tribe to have a lower IQ because they where not quite >familiar with the usage of a simple phone model. A plainly incorrect experiment! Jungle trimes should have much higher IQ than we, because they don't use C++! (:-)) --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de