> >With the advent of quantum microbiology and the >like, most informed >people agree that 21st medicine is a science. >However, medicine as >practiced in the 17th century was definitely an >art, not a science. The >argument that "tuning" is an "art"--that it is >subjective like a >symphony or like cooking--is rapidly losing. The >measuring tools that >allow us to approach "tuning" as a completely >scientific endeavor have >been present in the Oracle kernel now for over a >decade. And some of our >community's members with so-called shallow-minded >views are doing an >excellent job of finally figuring out how to apply >them. > >Cary Millsap >Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. >http://www.hotsos.com >
I would agree with you if what we had to tune were something immutable; I have always been more interested in moral philosophy than epistemology, but in my view one of the main features of 'science' is that it deals with the immutable laws of nature - as opposed to social sciences or economy, 'the dismal science', where the approach may be perfectly scientific but intuition and experience still have a huge part to play, not least because the ground keeps shifting and man is far from being the rational animal it is deemed to be. As long as what I have to tune is more often than not issued from the wobbly logic of developers trying to implement sometimes no less wobbly business rules, as long as I often have to resist the temptation of blowing everything up and rewriting everything from scratch, I personally feel more on the side of craftsmanship than science. Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
