From: "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:24:19 +0100
Date: 2004-07-20T16:24:19+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <opsbfzqtxpp4pfvb@bram-2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: W%3Lc.24894$F8.17744@nwrdny02.gnilink.net
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:40:38 GMT, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Who said anything about beauty? I was sarcastically noting that
> office buildings and bridges are in fact almost never identical,
> even though their functions are essentially simple - one contains
> offices and the other spans waterways.
Oh. I see your point.
But are you saying that you think there /should/ be as much
diversity among computer programs, or are you saying that there
is such diversity de facto, but /shouldn't/ be?
--
Nick Roberts
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-19 18:46 Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Marc A. Criley
2004-07-19 18:56 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-19 19:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-19 23:24 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 0:27 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 7:40 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-20 15:24 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2004-07-20 16:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 18:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-20 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-08-09 16:14 ` Richard Riehle
2004-07-19 20:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-19 23:27 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 9:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-20 0:31 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 1:45 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-07-20 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 14:28 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-20 15:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 18:02 ` Wes Groleau
2004-07-21 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-21 20:22 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-23 8:00 ` Rolf Ebert
2004-07-23 21:04 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 20:17 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 22:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-23 20:59 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 1:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-21 1:17 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-21 3:44 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 4:09 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 9:38 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-07-22 14:11 ` Marc A. Criley
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