A carpenter goes the hardware store to buy some hammers. They are offer him some all-round general purpose blue hammers for $40 each. He can use them to build anything we wants. Also with the purchase of each blue hammer, he can get a special purpose red hammer for $10 each. However, he is only allowed to build coffee shacks with the red hammers. Later, a traveling craftsman shows up at the carpenter's house and tells him that (for a fee) he modify the red hammers (paint them blue), so that they could used to build almost anything.
How does the carpenter feel about the hardware store? About the blue hammers? About the red hammers? About the craftsman? Who's right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
