Re: Religian (was:Iraq

In article <1190916363.779875.220190@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Alistair <alistair@ld50m
acca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On 26 Sep, 21:58, spamb...@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote: 
> <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: 
> conversations 
>
>I don't think that the Brits are hung-up on whether one is Catholic,
>Orthodox, etc. I think she was probably intimidated by my being openly
>atheist and argumentative.

I know several Catholics who would regard that as a challenge, rather than
being intimidated by it. I'm one of them. :-)

> BTW, unrelated to her religion, she was the
>best programmer I have ever supervised.

I've not noticed much, if any, correlation between programming ability and
religious affiliation: the best programmers I know are a couple of Catholics
,
a Lutheran, an atheist, a Hindu, two evangelical Christians, and one guy who
se
religion I never knew. The worst ones are a couple of Catholics, two
evangelicals, an atheist, and a reincarnationist.

OTOH, IME there *does* seem to be a *strong* positive correlation between
programming ability and affinity for classical music, especially Handel and
J.S.Bach.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphag at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.