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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts.
Date: 1997/07/31
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Shmuel says

<<I would go farther; I am suspicious of anyone who advocates a particular
languages and can't tell me anything in the language that he dislikes.
If
he can't identify flaws, either he's too inexperienced to rely on or
isn't perceptive enough. *any* programming language will have warts, and
a real professional will recognize them and have strategies for dealing
with them.
>>

Of course, that goes without saying, but did you ever meet anyone who was
in that category whose ideas you would otherwise respect. I know some
people who display this kind of ignorance, but they are not the kind of
people I would take seriously.

You can say the same thing about operating systems of course, for example
anyone who cannot point out the flaws in XXX, simply indicates that they
do not know the system very well, or that they lack the experience to
know that improvements are possible

(XXX = NT, Unix, Win95, OS/2, VMS etc etc)