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From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/15
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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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