Gregory wrote: >I had no idea that the quotes I include in my signature were abrasive, >and I certainly did not mean any of them to be anti-life in any sense.
The quotes were thought provoking and even amusing - the first few times. After the same thoughts kept coming back 50-100 times, I thought it might be productive to share the thoughts provoked. I enjoyed your explanation of this one and was pleasantly surprised to see that it actually seemed relevant to the list. ;) I too am strongly in favor of refactoring and abstraction, but to me it is not a "taking away" but a reformulation and a drawing out of the essential underlying ideas. >Maybe it's just the way I think about software (or computing in >general), but I'm a big fan of simplicity and elegance. "Sometimes less is more" --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
