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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e61c8636ef35379d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-17 07:40:10 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: mark_lundquist@my-deja.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Examples in Docs, was Re: Escape Sequences in Strings Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:28:45 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <944dn3$vss$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <93objj$guk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93q77h$rr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <940f9j$nj2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <940n0u$tnf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <942brr$b0t$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <942vqr$sd0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.213.202.129 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 17 15:28:45 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x66.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 130.213.202.129 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDmark_lundquist Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4097 Date: 2001-01-17T15:28:45+00:00 List-Id: We're in violent agreement :-) Note how the analogy has to be set up so narrowly to remain valid, that it ends up being useless. Most analogies are useless anyway :-)... They're only helpful when there's an underlying principle to illustrate that doesn't depend on the analogy, and the illustration is strong enough not to be compromised by the inevitable flaws of the analogy. Reasoning by analogy was a hallmark of Midieval thought -- analogies were advanced and accepted as proofs. Analogies can still be a very useful creative thinking tool, though. This is so pathetically OT, I will stop now :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/