On 30/12/2008, at 10:57 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:19:58AM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote:
>>
>> On 30/12/2008, at 9:51 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
>>
>>> Damien has a significant head-start on us all with
>>> CouchDB and Lotus Notes before it, so if I was going to trust
>>> anyone's
>>> intuition
>>> it would be his.
>>
>> IMO the principles here have nothing to do with either Couch or
>> Notes.
>> They have more to do with general API design principles. I have 31
>> years
>> experience with issues like this, in a very wide variety of
>> languages and
>> contexts, but I'm not asking anyone to accept anything I assert on
>> that
>> basis.
>>
>> Are we professional engineers or mystics?
>
> Come on, I clearly outlined my position. Please don't
> mischaracterise me.
IMO you are asserting intuition over reason, which doesn't feel like
engineering to me.
In any case, I didn't mean it personally, sorry.
Antony Blakey
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