On 29/12/06 22:39 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > On Friday 29 Dec 2006 4:20 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > As soon as you find a way for humans to share their thoughts more > > efficiently than by speaking them out :). Some parts of programming > > workload can be split up, but some cannot. Activities like debugging are > > even worse. > > > > Devdas Bhagat > > On second thoughts, and I guess you should know this better than me - isn't > FOSS/FLOSS the way to go about it? > In this case, FOSS is pretty irrelevant. The smallest unit of programming thought is fairly complex.
> Humans CAN and have designed ways to share thoughts in various ways. Sharing > code and documentation is a great way to do that. Have you considered the added overheads of communication? Refer: The Mythical Man Month, also http://en.wikipedia.org/en/The_Mythical_Man-Month Devdas Bhagat
