From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T09:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:31 pm, Christian Szegedy wrote:
<snip>
> > Somewhat related:  I saw a graph some years ago that impacted on me.  The
> > y axis was randomicity and x was complexity.  It was to illustrate that
> > (a) if randomicity was sufficiently high then statistical methods were
> > useful and (b) if randomicity was very low and complexity was low then
> > standard mechanical methods were useful.  What I found startling was the
> > large area in the middle and to the right that were not random enough for
> > statistics to be reliable and too complex for mechanical methods.  Yet,
> > it was just in this area, where no reliable tools currently existed that
> > most of the interesting and important problems of our time existed.
>
> Sound like pseudoscience to me...

Sorry, Christian.  I have brooded on this response for several days now and 
just cannot get it out of my head.  In what way is this story "pseudoscience"   
and what am I to imply that your statement says about me for posting it?

Albert