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two blog posts I read in rapid succession

one:

http://usmanahmad.wordpress.com/2006/08/…

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Q: What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?

…Tim Bray: Ability to prefer evidence to intuition…

two:

http://www.eternityroad.info/index.php/w…

Though every genius is eventually proved wrong — no human conception can embrace the full sweep of reality with perfect accuracy — nevertheless they contribute mightily to the advance of human understanding, by hewing close to single indefeasible epistemological rule: facts trump theory.

So: I think I could work in an engineering group with Fran (and I hate everybody, so that’s saying something).

And also: If Tim Bray and Francis Poretto were programming languages, then Hello World would be about 8.5 times longer in Poretto. :-)

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2 Responses to “two blog posts I read in rapid succession”

  1. ngvrnd Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am

    That plus the ability to think carefully and not jump to conclusions, or failing that (since I think everyone does to a greater or lesser degree) the drive to recognize self-error and change ones behavior.

  2. Francis W. Porretto Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 11:47 am

    “Hello World would be about 8.5 times longer in Poretto.”

    Well, yes. Because it would be:

    “Greetings and felicitations to you, O Cosmos Unbounded! And a heartfelt wish of endless salubriousness from here to eternity and to all points of the compass, from your most appreciative Curmudgeon!”

    “Never use a long word where a short one will do.” — George Orwell.
    “Never use a short word where a long one will do.” — Your Curmudgeon.