[donh]

Setting in motion a chain of events that results in something happening is not the same as designing the outcome.

Who says you had to design every outcome of a process, in order to be credited with designing that process?

I can play the semantics games just as well as you can,

Substantially better, I would say, from this example.

but they're not the same thing.

So...may I take it that since the people who build computers don't build the programs that run on computers, that computers aren't designed?

[inquest]

So...may I take it that since the people who build computers don't build the programs that run on computers, that computers aren't designed?

Of course the computers are designed. But the programs aren't designed by the people who design the computers.

[edsheppa]

Who says you had to design every outcome of a process, in order to be credited with designing that process?

Just as a for instance, I am a programmer and have created many programs and sometimes there are bugs, some bad enough to corrupt a user's data I'm ashamed to say. I don't think there's any rational way to consider those bugs my design and yet also no rational way to consider the programs that contain them undesigned.