Re: tlug: rpms

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

    >> Suffice it to say that I vehemently disagree with the
    >> dumbing-down of UNIX, which is your essential statement here.
    >> If they can't deal with learning how things work, they
    >> shouldn't be using the bloody system.

    Darren> And I bet 'C' programs annoy you as well - all that
    Darren> dumbing-down of good old assembler. Hey, people don't even
    Darren> care what is in their registers any more.

No, I doubt C programs annoy Chris.  Nor Perl/Python or Octave, and
probably not even Glade, for that matter.  Even if he doesn't use them.

But the misuse of SAS has destroyed whole countries[1], because the
fools using it understood neither statistics nor economics.

    Simon> Chris Sekiya (lists.tlug):
    >> If they can't deal with learning how things work, they
    >> shouldn't be using the bloody system.

    Simon> While I mildly agree, and I have a very long rant prepared
    Simon> on the subject, you've just walked past the line from
    Simon> technocracy into elitism.  Walk back.

s/using/administering/

OK, now?


Footnotes: 
[1]  Exaggerating for effect, I'll admit.  But the World Bank has made
policy decisions on the basis of statistical analyses that were later
shown to be completely meaningless.  Hearsay, of course; I've never
worked there.

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