On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 06:04:59 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Thus
> statements such as "experience is irrelevant" are dangerous statements in most
> contexts.

sorry. but 'experience' IS irrelevant.

What is relevant, is what your experience demonstrates (i.e. what do you have to show for your experience).

Plenty of people are experienced idiots.

This is turning into a debate on the semantics of the word experience, so let's leave it that each person has their own belief system.

On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 09:22 +0000, TheDalaiLama via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 06:04:59 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Thus
> > statements such as "experience is irrelevant" are dangerous
> > statements in most
> > contexts.
> 
> sorry. but 'experience' IS irrelevant.
> 
> What is relevant, is what your experience demonstrates (i.e. what do you have to show for your experience).
> 
> Plenty of people are experienced idiots.
> 
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