From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/15
Date: 1998-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01be1089$329f0980$50a55c8b@aptiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 72knmb$q79$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dewar@gnat.com schreef in artikel <72knmb$q79$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> > Ever seen a design, much less a requirements document for
> > Open Source Software ?
>
>
> I don't think you have any basis for assuming that Open
> Source Software is any less well designed or less subject
> to formal requirements specification than proprietary
> software. It is really a completely orthogonal issue.
I would agree in the general case, but my note was a reaction on
Tom's, who had an -IMHO- implicit link to the bazar style of
development. And as I understand it, in this model software
is not so much designed as, well..., grown, so to speak.
> Certainly this model is NOT the model we use for GNAT,
> where we very carefully consider design issues, and where
> of course there most certainly is a requirements document
> (it is called the ADa 95 RM :-)
:-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-15 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-14 0:00 Open-Source and programming style Tom Moran
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
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