Re: Is Micro Focus doomed?



<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dm4i15$ic0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> In article <3ulk6aF125tskU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>"Don Leahy" <leahydon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:Czsgf.995$e43.132429@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> [snip]
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>>> OO is a descriptive discipline, more
>>> akin to biology than mathematics.
>>
>>If there was no biology, there would be no mathematics.
>
> Mr Dashwood, it might be wise to recall the words of that Classic Film,
> 'Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire' (UK title: 'Follow That Guy with
> the One Black Shoe', US title: 'The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe'),
> in which something was stated along the lines of 'Wait until you retire to
> philosophise'.
>
> Biology = a study/account of that-which-lives.
>
> Mathematics = the understandable/knowable things.
>
> So... if there were no study/account of that-which-lives there would be no
> understandable/knowable things?

Probably not, but that is not my argument.

Your definitions are not the ones I used.

I was using "biology" as a collective noun for living things. Admittedly, a
loose use, but I believe acceptable.
(If I was to talk about the biology of a planet as being predatory, I don't
think anyone would misunderstand the usage).

I was using "mathematics" = the science of calculation, numeracy, the
popularly accepted meaning of the term.

If there were no living things, there would be no mathematics, because it
was formulated and conceived by living organisms.

As for leaving philosophising until I retire...

1. Why would I take the advice of some character in an obscure movie? (It
may be a "Classic" in your universe, but it is unheard of in mine..)
2. Why would I change the habit of a lifetime? :-)

Pete.






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