[Taxacom] Wikispecies is not a database: part 3 (after thinking about it!)

[Bob Mesibov]

Hi, Jim.

"sniff.... FORTRAN... a kinder, gentler age... sigh..."

Speak for yourself. I learned and used FORTRAN in high school in 1960, and I don't remember the teachers, the curriculum or my fellow overachievers as being either kind or gentle. 'Course, memory plays tricks on us oldies...

"And the work of taxonomy consists of trying to figure out, based on the evidence, which one got it least wrong.  My taxes are educating and paying lots of people lots of money
to do that..."

I think they both graduated and are still out of work. There was a push in 2008-09 for the Australian Government to boost taxonomy training and employment, but it got nowhere. I realise that 'lots' is relative and is very large compared to zero, but taxonomy in this wide brown land is a long way from booming.
-- 
Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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