Re: Guessing?

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:4839dff8$0$4035$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...

> POOD is all about making sure the dbms knows what it needs to know. (Not
> that I like anthropomorphizing dbmses.)

I do like anthropomorphizing dbmses and software in general.

I guess it's not so much that I like doing that as that I'm intellectually lazy enough not to avoid doing it. I guess anthropomorphizing software, or databases, or any artifact is intellectual shorthand for considering such an artifact as an agent of its human creator. As an agent, it "needs" or "guesses" what its creator would have "needed" or "guessed" in the same circumstance.

There are (at least) two flaws in the above: the first is bugs, where the behavior is unintended. the second is AI, where the intent of the human creator is spcifically to create an artifact where anthropomorphization makes sense. Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 11:05:59 CEST