ideas are perfect, implementations are not

Posted Apr 14, 2005 18:21 UTC (Thu) by vgough (guest, #2781)
In reply to: Living in a world of errors by shane
Parent article: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

It is a very interesting topic. I'd say the biggest problem between
mathematicians and engineers is when one group thinks they can get along
without the other! Because in general, mathematicians don't build
bridges, and engineers don't lose much sleep over the limits of our
understanding of the universe :-)

I agree, the problem is mostly one of aesthetics. But we should hope
there will always be people around to ask if our current implementations
are ugly for a reason, or just for the sake of ugliness.