Re: Thought this was funny

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Ed Falis wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:16:16 GMT, Robert I. Eachus 
> <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> No, he must have been taught that your program design should allow for 
>> changes in requirements.  He was prepared for another value being 
>> added to Boolean. ;-)
> 
> I don't know, but you're starting to sound like an ExtremeProgramming 
> aficionado ;-)

Take that back!  I was making fun of ExtremeProgramming nutcases. ;-)

Seriously, programming is an art.  I think that software engineering is 
an art as well, but it is actually a different art. Sort of like the 
relationship between architecture and good city planning. But any one 
who takes subtle relationships of form and composition in any art and 
tries to reduce them to rules or laws commits sin.  Anyone who then 
tries to carry these rules to extremes commits lunacy.

-- 
                                                     Robert I. Eachus

"Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the 
goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, 
down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or 
down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair 
of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle 
Maintenance by Robert Pirsig