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From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>
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Subject: Re: Software Design
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> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the 
> other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious 
>deficiencies." C. A. R. Hoare

It will be very interesting to see an operating system or at least
a (visual) text editor, which has obviously no deficiencies, and
at the same time is useful.

I'd like to propose new term "hoareware" for the kind of software
for which the quoted phrase is true.



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia