Paul Bredbury wrote:
Go find a mathematician and discuss this matter with him. Tell him what you told
me, and he will slap you with a large frying pan.
Here's a non-programming example, to make things clearer.
It's a sunny Sunday, and Fred is watching a labourer trying to build a
house with a shovel. An hour later, Jane comes along and asks Fred
whether the labourer has built any houses *with* that shovel.
Fred does not say:
"Hang on! With *that* shovel? I dunno. Possibly. Who can say?"
Fred does say:
"Dudess, that labourer hasn't built any houses."
Implicit in that is:
"Dudess, regardless of the building tool, no houses have been built."
Look, you can introduce a thousand other metaphors, it won't prove your point
more right. We don't need metaphors to understand what you want to say. Fact is
just that so far 5 people disagree with you and zero agree with you. So maybe
you should just accept that 5 times more people think another solution is more
appropriate and stop inventing nice stories.
</rant>
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Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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