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From: mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Message-ID: <2232@promark.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 02:40:50 GMT
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In article <1989Oct22.174927.3736@world.std.com>, madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
> In article <227@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes:
> |Wizard implies "knows all" [...]
> 
> Actually the definition I'm most comfortable with is:
> 
> "A Wizard is someone who can do something that you don't know how to do."
> 
> I believe you will find that this is appropriate in most contexts.


I don't know how to repair pipes, but I don't consider my plumber a wizard.
I don't know how to drive a fork lift, but I don't consider our fork lift
 operator a wizard.
I don't know how to drive a 5 speed, but I do not consider all those that
 can wizards.
...
...
...

(For those fork lift operators out there that are wizards and are
moonlighting as programmer wizards, I mean no disrespect).

I guess "most" is a loose term.

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