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 ge
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...
--> *** SECOND SYSTEM EFFECT *** <--
which I'm sure we al
