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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/28
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In article <338C5770.4E1E@westdat.com>,
Bryce Bardin  <BBardin@westdat.com> wrote:
>Rich Miller wrote:
>
>> Not to beat a dead horse -- but you might reflect on the grace and
>> endurance of Europe's numerous, many-centuries-old cathedrals.
>> 
>
>However, you might also take note that those graceful flying buttresses
>were invented to cure the problem of wind loading causing the high thin
>walls of the first cathedral designs to fall down.

Yes, those graceful and enduring cathedrals are here because of a sort of
darwinian survival of the fittest. Some ad hoc designs turned out OK, the bad
ones collapsed. That's kind of how a lot of software gets developed.