yeah well allegedly god created the world in 7 days, us mere mortals might find it a touch more difficult ;->
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Carmack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [ERPS] Some thoughts on the Open VTVL software > > > > > > Theoretically this type of component software architecture could also help > > > divide up the work/responsibility of your development group as well as > > > defining the roles of the software components. > > > > > > >We are trying to keep to this type of division of code, but there are > >costs in terms of binary executable size and execution time that need > >consideration, so nice clean breaks by doing APIs and function calls can > >be difficult. But code is much easier to maintain when broken up, so we > >do what we can. > > > >Dave > > Binary executable size and execution time related to code structure are a > non-issue by at least an order of magnitude. > > I do quite firmly believe that when a project is simple enough that one > person is capable of writing it, it should be written by one person. Many > projects do eventually get beyond that point, but it is good strategy to > try and stay in the one-man-software-development range. > > Flight control software, even for orbital vehicles, should certainly be in > that range. > > A second (or third...) pair of eyes to CHECK the code is a good thing, but > having two or three people write code that could have been written by one > person is a bad thing. It really didn't take all that much time for me to > write all of the software we use. > > John Carmack > > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
