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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/05/28 Message-ID: <864857498snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244587045 References: <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mfcg8$n1o@corn.cso.niu.edu> <5mfjd9$1q9@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mgdvq$dcl@ratty.wolfe.net> <338C5770.4E1E@westdat.com> X-Mail2News-User: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: genesis.demon.co.uk Organization: none Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <338C5770.4E1E@westdat.com> BBardin@westdat.com "Bryce Bardin" writes: >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. Wind isn't the real problem, the forces in an arch cause the uprights to buckle outwards. Tall thin arches need the buttress to counteract this and for general stability. What the software engineering equivalent is I'm not quite sure! :-) -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------