On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:14:29 -0500 Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 01 February 2002 02:20 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > > > Just goes to show that "worse is better". > > > > In some ways, maybe, but Tanenbaum's points were perfectly valid. > > What do you mean "but"? That's the point of "worse is better" (I think Dr. > Dobbs Journal had a piece on this): Timely initial delivery is more important > to the success of software than its quality.
Along that same line, General Patton is reputed to have said: "A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow". -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
