>Actually, the thread has been more like:
>
>Stealing is wrong.
>Why?
>Because It's wrong.
>Why?
>Because I said so.

The problem is, Erik, that people give you reasons, and if it is not what you want to hear, you simply say that they are not really reasons and they are grandstanding on dogmatic opinion.

>>The point is that MANY best practices can not be summed up in an easily communicable set of neat rules.
>Without addressing the points you made below (I tried to do so in my last message to JVP), this is BS.

Erik - you are simply wrong, bud. You are forgetting that this thing we do is still half art. Maybe a few more years of experience will turn you around. FWIW - I used to be a major RV fan until a good bit of real world experience with both RV and SPT/SP turned me around. This should prove to you that I'm more open minded to what works rather than defending a technique simply because "I learned it that way first" or "have always done it that way".

Also -as more evidence - I have adapted at least on technique from an idea you gave me - changing the way I did something in favor of something that worked better. I would submit that it is YOU that is the "because I do it this way and therefore it is right" guy - not me.


>If I am not mistaken, you and I have had a similar discussion before, on at least one occasion. You are fond of calling certain techniques "amateurish", just because you prefer another technique.

It has less to do with what I prefer than with what I learned over many years and paying attention to those who really know what they are doing in PRACTICAL, real-world situations. It hasn't been all that many years ago that I used scx forms and RVs - but open-minded experimentation, observation, and RW experience taught me better ways.

thanks,