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From: drush@zakalwe.raleigh.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Software Development Environments (Was: What is wrong with OO ?)
Date: 1997/01/06
Date: 1997-01-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6sp4er3qr.fsf@zakalwe.raleigh.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32C88BE0.7F2B@acm.org


Robert Martin wrote lots of really good stuff about configuration
management which is IMNSHO possibly *the* main problem facing large
software projects (well, one of the biggies anyway).

He also gave me a great straight line:
>The Unix view of the world is not a bad one, but one which compiler
>writer's seem to have discarded. Unix works because programs are
>expected to communicate with each other, via well defined interfaces,
>the principle being that the sum of many parts is much greater than
>could ever be achieved by one whole. Robert's dream could be achieved
>if the parts (compiler, editor, build system, debugger etc) could be
>made to really fit together. Someone here said that this "isn't rocket
>science"

No, its Emacs.

:)

Happy hackin'
	david rush
	mailto:kumo@intercenter.net

	I bill $100/min for reading commercial email.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-01-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-31  0:00 What is wrong with OO ? Ell
1996-12-31  0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1996-12-31  0:00 ` Ian Joyner
1996-12-31  0:00   ` Robert C. Martin
1997-01-01  0:00     ` Tom Bushell
1997-01-02  0:00     ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1997-01-03  0:00       ` Case Tools for OO (was Re: What is wrong with OO ?) Mark Smith
1997-01-03  0:00         ` APEX - WAS: " Nigel Tzeng
1997-01-03  0:00     ` Software Development Environments (Was: " Stephen Riehm
1997-01-03  0:00       ` Nigel Tzeng
1997-01-04  0:00       ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1997-01-06  0:00       ` Key Abstraction that is coming Mark Smith
1997-01-06  0:00         ` John Howard
1997-01-09  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-07  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-06  0:00       ` Software Development Environments (Was: What is wrong with OO ?) Tom Bushell
1997-01-06  0:00   ` drush
1997-01-06  0:00   ` drush [this message]
1997-01-07  0:00   ` What is wrong with OO ? drush
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