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Subject:Re: The Old Argument: Framemaker vs. MS Word From:"Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- omnimark -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:56:52 -0500
Keith Cronin wrote
>
> Robert Heinlein disagrees:
>
> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher
> a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
> build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
> cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
manure,
> program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
> Specialization is for insects."
Shakespear had an answer for such boasts
GLENDOWER:
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR:
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
