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-Thread: 103376,4feb499c05063194 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.telebyte.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:24:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2m2j9gFhf4cpU1@uni-berlin.de> <1090263815.244230@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de F+xRjW1Hm5lEfjREz+b3WAGlfjBBtEoMIWhWiqBKD+poHkTt0= User-Agent: Opera M2/7.51 (Win32, build 3798) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2277 Date: 2004-07-20T16:24:19+01:00 List-Id: On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:40:38 GMT, Hyman Rosen wrote: > ... > Who said anything about beauty? I was sarcastically noting that > office buildings and bridges are in fact almost never identical, > even though their functions are essentially simple - one contains > offices and the other spans waterways. Oh. I see your point. But are you saying that you think there /should/ be as much diversity among computer programs, or are you saying that there is such diversity de facto, but /shouldn't/ be? -- Nick Roberts