Re: Whatever happened to reuse?

From: Shayne Wissler (thalesNOSPAM000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:34:07 GMT

"Laurent Bossavit" <laurent@dontspambossavit.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b0cb4a87ea9b618989775@news.noos.fr...
> Shayne (and Elliott as well, who argued identically though a lot more
> succinctly) :
>
> > > Even the wisest and most skilled amongst us cannot see very far ahead.
> > > Feedback remains the key, and probably always will.
> >
> > And I am very much against your trying to assert how much I know or how
much
> > I'm allowed to think ahead, particularly based on your own narrow
> > experiences with your failures with "thinking ahead." Just because you
have
> > failed in particular ways does not imply that I have.
>
> And I say there is nothing to be "against" here. I have noticed this
> pattern of argument in previous posts of yours, and it doesn't stand up
> to closer scrutiny (provided below, please extend me the courtesy of
> reading in full).

On the contrary, your scrutiny doesn't stand.

> You are denying Bob the right to generalize from
> particulars, which right you vigorously insist on for yourself.

That is a ridiculous generalization. I deny anyone the right to make those
kinds of generalizations, which aren't from particulars but invented out of
thin air.

> If Bob's assertion had been "even the most robust and healthy amongst us
> cannot work sixteen-hour days for very long periods", you would not be
> taking this offended tone and asking Bob to speak only for himself. His

Actually I think some people can work like this.

> point would be a perfectly good general argument against sustained
> overtime, matching (and appealing to) general facts about human nature.
> Someone may have a beef with the particulars; for instance, I may want
> to take Bob to task for "sixteen" and talk him down to "ten" or "eight".
> No one would seriously counter Bob on grounds of his or her being
> personally exempt from the general limitation Bob advanced.
>
> In the above I transposed Bob's point from the mental to the physical
> realm.

<snip>

You wish to pretend that practices like "no up front design" and "all
production code written by a pair" is comparable to "no one can work 23 hour
days every day". You are clearly very deluded.

Shayne Wissler