On Ma, 21 oct 14, 07:46:14, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/21 4:12 "Andrei POPESCU" <[email protected]>: > > > > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 03:00:59, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > > > Would one expect the parts of a monolith to refrain from knowing too much > > > about each other? > > > > How can a monolith have different parts? > > Well, that's kind of the whole point with monolithic software. > > Things that should have parts, effectively, don't.
I'm not questioning whether it should or not have parts. > In other words, you can't separate the parts out and work with them > individually without being very careful about the side-effects of the > changes you're making. > > But surely you know that? > > (I wouldn't think this OT, but I'll respect your choice.) I was actually curious about the expression "entangled monolith", which doesn't make sense at all for me, but then I'm not a native English speaker. In my understanding this doesn't even qualify as a pleonasm. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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