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- From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:19:19 -0500
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On 01/13/2015 02:59 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote: > Its funny, the like/dislike thing. I have never thought of it in this > way. SQL is what it is, just another technology. Technology is full of aesthetic considerations! Macintosh vs. Windows, IOS vs. Android, emacs vs. vi, Pascal vs. C, AC vs. DC. Yes, there are concrete technical differences, but Edison--a level headed man and very practical--hated alternating current. He was wrong. I think he was biased by aesthetic considerations. I think his brilliance was based on having really good instinct on what were good ideas and good approaches, and I guess that he couldn't always articulate why, but it served him well. Mostly. Technology is deeply traditional and full of irrational rituals and prejudices and and things of beauty and things of horrible ugliness. A lot of "just another technology" entrants fail because they can't get past all these squishy human judgments. -kb
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