On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 17:09 +0000, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > Hi, > > since Nick Holland touched on the DESIGN aspect in his e-mail regarding > supporting OpenBSD, I think this article pretty much reflects the > reality here.
> http://www.osnews.com/story/22135/The_Problem_with_Design_and_Implementation > > Just think it's worth reading. What came to my mind while reading this article is an almost 30yo tale from the times of my first encounter with Unix release 6 on PDP11. I was studying CS at TU Berlin then and we had a OS Prof Siggi Schindler (he's the reason why I use the 'y') who also led a course on the ISO 7 layer model with practical applications. AFAIR everything essentially boiled down to having a *precise specification language*. If you have such a language the only thing left to do is building a machine that accepts this language as it's programming language. In this sense implementing a specification in any existing programming language is equivalent to implementing a subset of said machine on top of an existing one. Siggy -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org+ |36 days until|bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de| |www.Ubucon.de|or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de| +-------> ceterum censeo javascriptum esse restrictam <--------+ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
