Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-07 Thread verec
On 2009-06-05 21:03:33 +0100, Kenneth Tilton kentil...@gmail.com said: When progress stops we will have time to polish our systems, not before. Is that an endorsement of mediocrity? -- JFB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-07 Thread Kenneth Tilton
verec wrote: On 2009-06-05 21:03:33 +0100, Kenneth Tilton kentil...@gmail.com said: When progress stops we will have time to polish our systems, not before. Is that an endorsement of mediocrity? No, of General Patton. hth, kt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-05 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: Of interest: • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html Addendum: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-05 Thread John Thingstad
På Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:07:39 +0200, skrev Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com: On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how seemingly trivial problems, such as networking, transferring files, running a

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-05 Thread MRAB
John Thingstad wrote: På Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:07:39 +0200, skrev Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com: On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how seemingly trivial problems, such as networking,

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-05 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: Of interest: • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html Addendum: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems