From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f3ed9f7030da79b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jerry van Dijk" Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style Date: 1998/11/14 Message-ID: <01be0ff2$6dd17b60$96a55c8b@aptiva>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 411825511 References: <364d0243.39960214@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net X-Trace: 14 Nov 1998 17:15:04 GMT, 139.92.165.150 Organization: JerryWare Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tom Moran schreef in artikel <364d0243.39960214@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>... > One advantage cited for Open Source Software is that it can be > debugged in parallel by many people. That would seem to fit the style > of 'code anything, then debug until it works' better than the 'design > it so it works in the first place' style, which seems less amenable to > parallelism. Comments? Ever seen a design, much less a requirements document for Open Source Software ? -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | email: jdijk@acm.org -- Ada & Win32: http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk