Subject: Re: Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 01:22:57 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional
Message-ID: <vUudnfITfJLM6waiXTWc-g@speakeasy.net>
Peter G. Hancock <hancock@spamcop.net> wrote:
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| Thant Tessman wrote (on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:50):
| > Actually, they seem to make great systems administrators.
| 
| You're right!  Maybe it's a difference between "making" and "fixing"?
| 
| There's a talent or skill I call "voodoo" ...
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What, you're saying systems administration is a cargo cult? [1]
(Well, maybe for *poor* sysadmins...)


-Rob

[1] See <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming>
    and <URL:http://www.physics.brocku.ca/etc/cargo_cult_science.html>

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