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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:42:00 -0800
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] not understanding bugs.
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On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:36 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > But that's what happens when there is no incentive
> > for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun.
> > Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun;
> > but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time
> > it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again.
>
> something must be wrong with me.  i like fixing bugs.
> writing a big pile of code always seems daunting.

makes two of us :-(