[isabelle-dev] Software and Pyramids

[Christian Urban]

Totally agree. Considering the tools they had available, they are
geniuses in my book. But there *is* a parallel with the workers who
build the pyramids. Although free, their skeletal remains clearly 
show a life of hard labour and misery. Wished Isabelle developers 
somehow had moved on from that. ;o)

Christian


On Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 15:31:23 (+0200), Florian Haftmann wrote:
 > http://isabelle.in.tum.de/reports/Isabelle/rev/8e0a1d0a41ff
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 > This quotation is not very fair towards the Egyptian pyramids.  It is
 > ignorant of contemporary historians' suppositions that »just« a few
 > thousand (personally free) workers had been working on a single pyramid,
 > does not justice to the logistic challenge of managing such a big
 > construction set, and neglects the considerable development and
 > improvement of pyramid construction within a few generations.
 > 
 > 	Florian
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