>Can you tell me how programming in "C" is the same as, say, designing
>a brochure - not in terms of "aims and methods" bullshit, but in terms
>of structure, form, reflexivity, temporality, and efficiency?
- even though
>Asking questions is good - but not in the university context,
>unless you want to waste your time.
Presumably, we should ask
>someone with a deep understanding of design and computing
>theory, history and practice
however,
>There are very few such people, and
>few of those would want much to do with universities
- even though they don't seem to work in *industry*, because
>Market forces don't
>proscribe [sic] quality. Most people are content with mediocrity, which is
>why television and radio makes money. No room for bright sparks there.
and
>the work is usually dull, and the product usually sucks in a very
>deeply disappointing way
Anyway, assuming we did find them, we *could* ask them, and even add:
>Can you
>tell me someone who can, and could their ideas encompass arbitrary
>instances from both disciplines at the model-theoretic level?
however, I don't think would bother to answer, because
>Australians have good bullshit detectors.
Ryan