On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:51:48 -0400 Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> No, most business would NOT hire them as programmers - they couldn't > afford them. From an outside layman (but very interested) perspective the argument boils down to which is more important, the use of <tools> or the invention of <tools> I content that, without <tools>, no work of any significance can be done. Invention trumps work. ~Always.~ It is self-evident in the fact that invention always precedes work. Without invention we would still be stacking sticks and scooping mud by hand. Academics rule, or should. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131027175555.30be24a6.cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net