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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dkenny@actrix.gen.nz (Des Kenny) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/09/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 272853625 References: <5u5m5b$7q6$1@news2.digex.net> <5v0kta$jdb$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <1997Sep13.115308.12917@hobbit> Organization: Objective Methods Ltd Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1997Sep13.115308.12917@hobbit>, hathawa2@marshall.edu (Mark S. Hathaway) wrote: > > Whatever the movement (civil rights, equal rights, gay rights, > environmental protection, nuclear-free society, worker rights, etc.) > the establishment didn't propose it and does oppose it. > > Same as it ever was... > Too true. You might even call this the "Law of Social Inertia", to paraphrase Newton; and it goes back a little while. Here are some more recent, recorded, examples ... 1. "History" tells us that Pythagoras sentenced his young student Hippasus to death by drowning for unforgiveably discovering "irrational" numbers; and thus threatening the demise of his "master's" great work and reputation. -- He was not the first, or the last, "authority" to "eliminate" those with radical -- ideas that might disturb the holy slumber of that great god "Status Quo". 2. The Catholic Church and Gallileo, and Copernicus and so on ... -- Not to mention a few other "Religions" and "Powers" over the centuries -- To be fair it is not always "Religions" as such that have "sinned" -- "Who will rid me of this priest?" -- Henry II giving the barely code signal that sanctioned the murder of Thomas a Becket -- in his own cathedral 3. Many composers and authors were villified until after their death and then were miraculously "discovered" to be "brilliant". 4. A rather more recent film/docudrama on this same subject:- "Manufacturing Consent" Producer: Noam Chomsky, -- One time linguist and developer of the "Chomsky Grammars" Regards Des Kenny Information Systems Consultant Email: dkenny@actrix.gen.nz Phone[Cell]: 64 21 610 220 Phone[Home]: 64 4 476 9499 Fax[Modem]: 64 4 476 9237 PO Box[Snail]: 17356, Wellington, New Zealand