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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009Debugging is as much an art as it is a science.
Hi all, I've seen the following sentence: Debugging is as much an art as it is a science. Can we simplify the above sentence as the following one: Debugging is as much an art as a science. Thanks in advance.  Signature.: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :. > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Debugging is as much an art as a science. Yes. SignatureDavid > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > -- > .: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :. No, it has to be "Debugging is as much an art as it is a science," because "Debugging is as much an art as a science" implies a further reference to science in the sentence, such as, "Debugging is as much an art as a science is something else." >> Hi all, >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >reference to science in the sentence, such as, "Debugging is as much >an art as a science is something else." There is no "has to be" about it. "Debugging is as much an art as a science" is a form of "Debugging is as much an art as it is a science" with "it is" elided. A few totally normal and unremarkable examples of this construction via Google: Violence is as much a health issue as a police issue Islam Is As Much A Political Entity As A Religious One Being rich is as much a trap as being poor Evolution is as much a fact as gravity Nakba Denial Is As Much a Crime as Holocaust Denial SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) In article <0ea85418-a256-400e-be8b- 6a4eb2a8b5bc@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, BMCT2010@AOL.com says... > > Hi all, > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > reference to science in the sentence, such as, "Debugging is as much > an art as a science is something else." Are you Purl Gurl in disguise? There is nothing wrong with "debugging is as much an art as a science". SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary On May 18, 8:03 am, Amethyst Deceiver <s...@lindsayendell.co.uk> wrote: > In article <0ea85418-a256-400e-be8b- > 6a4eb2a8b...@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, BMCT2...@AOL.com says... [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Are you Purl Gurl in disguise? > There is nothing wrong with "debugging is as much an art as a science". You can even go further and write "debugging is as much art as science", though I'd strongly prefer "debugging involves as much art as science", which gets around the problem of elided "it is" entirely. Jim Deutch (JimboCat) -- Fuzzy logic: you either love it or hate it. >You can even go further and write "debugging is as much art as >science", though I'd strongly prefer "debugging involves as much art >as science", which gets around the problem of elided "it is" entirely. In this way, whether we will face the problem of elided "it involves"? Signature.: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :. > In article <0ea85418-a256-400e-be8b- > 6a4eb2a8b5bc@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, BMCT2010@AOL.com says... [...] >> No, it has to be "Debugging is as much an art as it is a science," >> because "Debugging is as much an art as a science" implies a further >> reference to science in the sentence, such as, "Debugging is as much >> an art as a science is something else." > > Are you Purl Gurl in disguise? It crossed my mind too, but I think this is a new one, because we haven't been subjected to a torrent of barely-comprehensible insults. > There is nothing wrong with "debugging is as much an art as a > science". Quite. SignatureMike. |
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