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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.103553.9320@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:35:53 EST
- References: <Bxvq7z.DKs@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.032216.20549@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1992Nov19.182839.20445@ultra.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.182839.20445@ultra.com>, jerbil@ultra.com (Joseph Beckenbach {Adapter Software Release Engr}) writes:
- > In his article, ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller) writes:
- [...]
- You can teach someone to play the trumpet - can
- >>you teach them to improvise like Miles Davis?
- >
- > The answer is "yes", though by that time you're already high up in
- > that top 10% -- and it'd be time to learn directly from Miles Davis. Exactly
- > as you point out later, practice and hard work are necessary but not sufficient
- > for this "greatness". This is as true in our fields of endeavor as for any of
- > the others in this world.
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- Definition time. Are we copying the improvisations of Miles Davis here? We
- can teach that, but that is not the "genius" we've been talking about. We need
- to be able to teach the thought process that leads someone to say, hey that
- can be improvised upon, nad here is a unique improvisation, not done before,
- and I am expanding the envelope of the discipline massively, not marginally.
- Is Davis a paradihm shifter? I think so. Cna we teach that? I think not.
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- George Kambic
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