i consider it really informative as well. i will reserve my personal opinion about the whole thing, cause really, it's irrelevant, but kudos to joel for knowing his stuff and backing it up. i'd like to see more enlightening threads ... it's been a while.
we can call it enlightening, not argumentative. if we listen, then we learn.
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-Knowledge and human power are synonymous; since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect- Francis Bacon (my senior quote)