Re: craft vs. science

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>]

Sean Brierley wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure about your comparison. Are you saying writing documentation
> and weaving a basket have the same kind and level of complexity? Should
> we apply this to other things? Should my home stereo have the same
> simplicity as a basket? My car? The flight deck on an airplane?
> 
> Are the audiences for the finished basket product the same as the
> audiences for the finished documentation?
> 


You have never heard of basket cases?

-- 
Peter

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a 
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's 
longer than any hour. That's relativity,"
- Einstein-


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