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Only if you insist on judging it with BE criteria

• coldtea 10y ago
  I maintain that it holds as a general principle, whether you judge it with BE criteria or not. I basically said this: "That some field (e.g. FE) has a specific way of working is orthogonal to that way being broken or not". Otherwise there would never be any brokenness conceivable ever, and everything would be a matter of different ways/conventions. I don't see why brokenness shouldn't be a possibility in FE or anywhere else though. Sure, I might be wrong, and FE might NOT be broken. But that would not be the case merely because "it has its own way for doing things" -- it would have to be inherently not broken, whereas "has its own way" merely tells us that it's idiomatic.
  • gotofritz 10y ago
    The criteria you use it to judge it determine whether it's assessed as broken or not. I maintain it is NOT broken; it's your broken-assessing criteria that are wrong.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      The broken-assessing criteria cannot be altered willy-nilly based on the domain.