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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f3ed9f7030da79b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Open-Source and programming style Date: 1998/11/14 Message-ID: <364d0243.39960214@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 411686767 Organization: InterNex Information Services 1-800-595-3333 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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?