James A. Donald wrote: > If one sets to synthesizing nice, but unnatural > properties, one is apt wind to up with the Xanadu > disease.
Not everyone may be familiar with the Xanadu disease, so I will clarify: Traditionally projects approach ninety percent complete, and then remain ninety percent complete forever. Project Xandadu, however, became less and less complete with the passage of time, rapidly and asymptotically approaching 0% complete. As the final envisaged design became more and more elegant, not only did the code become less and less complete, but also the design became less and less complete - less UI was prototyped, or even imagined, and less of the implementation for that UI was envisaged in sufficient detail to even start implementing it. Thus first the implementation approached zero, then design of the implementation approached zero, then design of the ui to be implemented approached zero. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
