- Jul 24 Mon 2006 04:23
台灣人的性格
- Jul 24 Mon 2006 01:35
Epigrams on Programming
Alan J. Perlis Yale University
This text has been published in SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1982.
The phenomena surrounding computers are diverse and yield a surprisingly rich base for launching metaphors at individual and group activities. Conversely, classical human endeavors provide an inexhaustible source of metaphor for those of us who are in labor within computation. Such relationships between society and device are not new, but the incredible growth of the computer's influence (both real and implied) lends this symbiotic dependency a vitality like a gangly youth growing out of his clothes within an endless puberty.
The epigrams that follow attempt to capture some of the dimensions of this traffic in imagery that sharpens, focuses, clarifies, enlarges and beclouds our view of this most remarkable of all mans' artifacts, the computer.
- Jul 24 Mon 2006 01:23
下不下台又怎樣 雲程
社會不如意的現象歸責於道德,和歸咎於文化一樣:崇高到常人難以企及,又簡單到你怎麼說都對。只是道德論、文化論者專注「解釋」而不提供「方法」,以致永遠無法達到論者所楬櫫的目標,而這就是形上學的缺失。
根據《聯邦論》的闡述,我們知道民主政治從來不要求「道德」;相反的,先賢們反而承認「人性」:深知人性有陰暗面,也深知人性無法消滅,所以設計了「方法」限制其陰暗。從而,有了我們所熟知的任期制、罷免權、制衡與監督等機制。畢竟,「左派的良心」不能不搭配「右派的老成」,「內聖外王」的理想畢竟是中華秩序的幻覺。俗諺有云「道德是統治者(控制社會)的工具」,在綠營尚稱不上統治者的今天,反過來還被社會要求超高道德標準,道德論者的邏輯真不知從何說起。
陳總統的確做得不好,但他現在下台與兩年後下台到底有何區別?台灣會不會更好?為什麼會更好?這樣會不會鼓勵媒體悉心呵護的偽君子出任最重要的職位?一切疑問的關鍵在「然後呢?」
陳總統的問題不在媒體所謂的「弊案」。只要司法體系公正、健全,根本不必在意政治人物是否毫無瑕疵。歷史評價邱吉爾、羅斯福的標準並非其是否為純白玉兔,而在他們是否擁有狐狸與獅子般的辦事能力。
- Jul 05 Wed 2006 01:09
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- Jul 04 Tue 2006 12:32
中國一定強