... at http://archive.develooper.com/?M=D should now be updating
again. :-)
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Michael G Schwern writes:
: PS Someone's going to argue that Perl 6 isn't a second system, its
: the Nth system. The exact value of N doesn't really matter, we're
: still very much in danger of the second system effect.
Yes, one need only read through all the RFCs to get an idea how bad it
could
(I think I've got the attributions right.)
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Speaking as someone that has often had to work on C, Perl, Verilog and VHDL
>
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:09PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> "The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all
> the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
> one. The result ... is a 'big pile'."
> -- Fred Brooks Jr, "Th
I'm covered in software engineering books at the moment writing up
conference stuff and I happened to crack open a copy of "The Mythical
Man-Month" and felt I should remind everyone about the...
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