Re: Dijkstra gets it wrong [was: Re: D gets it right]

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:07:27 GMT

Laurent Bossavit wrote:
>
... snip ...
>
>> Dijkstra held many demotic concepts because malgre lui, Dijkstra was a
>> Foucauldian who saw instinctively how metaphorical thinking, albeit
>> supposed a mark of bien pensance actually misleads when the metaphors
>
> My Sokal meter just went through the roof... Possibly only because
> French is in fact my first language, and borrowings from it don't have
> on me the effect you're intending. "Bien pensant" is closer to
> "politically correct" than to any other nuance of correctness.

Nilges is a troll. You would be well advised to ignore him. 

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