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Mxsmanic wrote:

Would you expect a computer jock to get peeved when pilots start talking about
computers?

I would, if they started acting like they knew better than actual
computer people.

I've heard pilots say a lot of really silly things about computers. And
why wouldn't they? It's not what they know. However, all of the pilots I
know who don't know much about computers *know* that they don't know
much about computers, so when they say silly things they say it in such
a way as to be open to correction. Which sometimes I provide, when I
think it'll be informative, and sometimes I don't, when I think it's
better to just let it be.

You can bet that if some pilot who had never written a line of code in
his life showed up at the airport and started lecturing me on Python and
Perl and first-class functions and all the rest, even though he clearly
had no idea of what he was talking about, I'd get ****ed off.
Fortunately this has not happened, and I don't expect it to.

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