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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Another Way Of Thinking About Patterns
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In article <50uv68$8cb@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) wrote:
>
>>  It is foolish to say "who cares whether the people who built this bridge knew
>>what they were doing".  It is important to know that the systems you rely on
>>were created using good methodology.  However, I don't think it's quite so
>>foolish to say "who cares how this bridge was built".  There's a difference
>>between knowing it was done right, and knowing HOW it was done.
>
>>  Similarly, solutions to problems rely heavily on being formulated using good
>>mothodology, but they don't rely on what that methodology is.
>
>But most of us here are builders of systems, and in order to be able
>to assure our customers we will do it right, we do need to concern
>ourselves with how it should be done.
>
  Good point.  In the bridge analogy, we're not the passenger driving over
the bridge; we're the engineers building it.

 -PD
