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>You're making a very basic mistake of logic. >Success (in this instance) requires Popularity but Popularity does not imply Success. How is your statement logi
by deltaonefour 5y ago
>You're making a very basic mistake of logic.
>Success (in this instance) requires Popularity but Popularity does not imply Success.
How is your statement logical? Who says success requires popularity? In what universe does that make sense?
A heart transplant was successfully completed recently. The man survived with no immune rejections. The heart came from a genetically modified pig spliced with genes to prevent rejection and stop growth after transplantation.
First time it occurred. It is a "successful" transplantation and BY DEFINITION since it only happened on one person in the whole of human history... NOT POPULAR. So if this "successful" event happened in the reality we live in... it means that things can be successful and NOT POPULAR at the same time.
"Not Logical"... Come on man.
>You are making up an alternative definition of success, which is untestable,
No I'm using the definition of successful in terms of the English language. Look it up in the dictionary to see if it contains the word "popular."
>But you haven't disproved that my idea of success is invalid. You keep attacking popularity.
My point isn't too prove anything. All I am saying and I repeat for like the hundredth time that you're statements have no logical basis. That's it. You claim is INVALID.
Here's an example that you can probably understand. If you enter a password into a system... I tell you the password is INVALID. I said nothing else. I didn't say no password exists, I didn't say a password does exist. I said NOTHING other than your password (aka claim) is INVALID.
- wvenable 5y ago> Who says success requires popularity? In what universe does that make sense? For a programming paradigm, it's required. A programming paradigm that is not used by many programmers is not successful paradigm. It's a failure or it hasn't succeeded yet.
- deltaonefour 5y ago>For a programming paradigm, it's required. A programming paradigm that is not used by many programmers is not successful paradigm. It's a failure or it hasn't succeeded yet. No it's not that's just a made up assumption by you. Nix and BSD are currently not popular. Even linux at one point was not popular. There are thousands and thousands of examples in software where the technology isn't popular but very successful on every other metric. There are opposite examples where the technology is popular but pretty unsuccessful in every other metric.