Re: [aroid-l] Typhoniums linked to God Numbers

From: Steve Marak samarak at arachne.uark.edu> on 2003.02.13 at 20:11:25(9974) On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Wilbert Hetterscheid wrote: > > Wilbert & friends your work is brill. I hate taxonomy > > Am I being a fool or do others also not understand why good ol' Ron writes > such a mysterious quote to a taxonomist? Made sense to me, but I assumed by "hate taxonomy" he meant "hate the ICBN" rather than taxonomists themselves or the work they do. I have the highest regard for Wilbert, Tom, Peter, and all the other aroid researchers - no one who has been around them at all will question their incredible knowledge of aroids or plants in general. I don't question their decisions about how closely things are related, either, even when I (gently) harass them about the fallout. On the other hand - as a complete amateur in botany but something of a connoisseur of really badly designed data systems (having, unfortunately, been exposed to so many!) - the ICBN is so very bad that I use it as an example of how NOT to build systems. Few others provide so many instructive bad features in one place. Steve +More -- Steve Marak -- samarak@arachne.uark.edu

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