> Here's one thing I don't understand. Geeks love Smalltalk image-based persistence. Geeks hate Excel documents. Don't they have the same problems?
They have neither the same benefits nor the same problems, though they have some overlap in each.
Also both the "Geeks love Smalltalk" and "Geeks hate Excel" generalizations are over-generalizations, and the set of geeks for whom the former is valid are not the same set of geeks for whom the latter is valid (though, again, there is some overlap.)
They have neither the same benefits nor the same problems, though they have some overlap in each.
Also both the "Geeks love Smalltalk" and "Geeks hate Excel" generalizations are over-generalizations, and the set of geeks for whom the former is valid are not the same set of geeks for whom the latter is valid (though, again, there is some overlap.)