RE: [NF] All the Write Stuff

2007-01-19 Thread Hal Kaplan
=> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner =>  => But...they got to the moon (and back) using the transistor => version of the tube computer I used in my first job... =>  Thank goodness for those aliens coming here almost 60 years ago to show us the way. Nature abhors a vacuum (tub

Re: [NF] All the Write Stuff

2007-01-18 Thread Chet Gardiner
They also have unlimited time and money to do their work. Software development will probably diverge into two paths -- one "boring" and predictable for critical applications and the other interesting and artsy. In some ways, it already has. In my life I've been lucky enough to spend about 30

RE: [NF] All the Write Stuff

2007-01-18 Thread Hal Kaplan
=>  => It's a decade old, but a very well-written piece: =>  => http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html =>  => Ted Roche => It reminds me of the way we did things 40 years ago. Nothing online ... everything was batch. During a good week, you could get 4 turnarounds. You wrote cod