Michael Tsang - The command line guy

Ward, inventor of the Wiki, says he's learned 100 programming languages, so we wondered if he feels particularly strongly about one of them over the others?
What's your favorite language? Did it teach you anything today?
You hit the nail squarely on the head, with the one side is not Really talking about the same thing as the other side. I have run across this same kind of thing in dealing with the notion of Capitation in heath care payment schemes, often a payor will be
saying something like...
We will pay you X amount per member per month
The party getting paid that amount will have a pile of cash with which to pay claims for the subset of members that actually require services.
Those claims payers may be dealing with things in a much more granular time interval days for example. They believe that member days divided by the number of days in that month will yield member months and tie back to the first party's Fogures (I know that
is not a typo).
They often don't and its all because they are dealing with two different time bases in the first place. It never will tie out untill that situation changes.
ANother example is when you examine eligibility against Capitation, simillar kinds of exceptions come up all the time.
The development of our software over the years has taught me that, More importantly it has given me the Cognative amunition to be able to counter these observances in discussion with either of the two sides through the course of day to day work.
Object oriented languages have greatly assisted in this endeavor.
Gotta' say that this is one very switched on man. Actually Ward and this video reminds me of a programmer/mentor that I used to work for many years ago (Ray).
I remember this guys saying to me 'many years ago' (while I was learning programming / MASM) that learning a language is the easy part, it's the concepts and using the language correctly that is the hard part. Each day we speak so many word, to various people
and so many are not done wisely or smartly. Imagine if we had the same type of hit / miss ratio, we would in a mess.
Had to laugh when I heard Ward repeat the line 'it's a rounding problem'. How many times have we all heard that ??
Great video's. Really would be great to converse in people, into the small hours of the night..
So, dig: I take the fundamental concept of object oriented programming from the traditional African drum ensemble (of many peoples, namely those of West Africa): what you would call “poly-rhythms” can also be thought of independent objects working together in a tightly coupled sound system. Add to this the implementation of drums for long distance communication and now you have web services sending aural packets of information over large distances, making a loosely coupled sound system. What is interesting is that in all cases, these sound-object systems “speak”—they are designed to communicate an idea. So when Ward talks about how modern Occidental machine-based objects “speak” we are on the same wavelength of ancient wisdom juxtaposed with contemporary technology.
Object oriented programming allows me to anthropomorphize my code into a cooperative of beings that speak to each other, harking back to days long gone… a world that no longer exists.