software-design in the past and now

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jul 26 06:13:57 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 11:18 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> first i changed the topic because it does not fit
> anly longer to this thread
> 
> Am 23.07.2011 03:41, schrieb Adam Williamson:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:38 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > 
> >> in the past there were real developers which was able to
> > 
> > ah, the True Scotsman rears its head!

The True Scotsman fallacy is a form of circular argument. Your argument
is 'REAL developers do (all the stuff I cut)', and your definition of a
'REAL developer' is...'someone who does (all the stuff I cut).' The
argument is perfectly circular and hence it's really just an assertion,
not an argument - 'I believe development should be done in this way'.
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