From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?"
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:33:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536060800.1875390.1496082208.13EE7020@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQ9t7jVeY4QUu0uFd5kL0ePXL6MheTJdL5B9cx49KM_5BnQBw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
> On 9/3/18, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Chris McGee wrote:
> >> While the idea that many eyes makes bugs shallower seems to have failed
> >> in the world of complex behemoth software it may work here.
> >
> > I think it worked for a while, but eventually complexity grew beyond even
> > the many eyes approach.
> >
> Could even be that the many-eyes approach encouraged the complexity;
> in fact, that could easily be the unintended consequence.
I suppose it made complexity seem less bad, for a while, but I was thinking economic factors likely drove it to get more complex. Also, I get the impression that some people just love complexity, but these days I'm not so sure. Complexity does have some real benefits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-02 16:31 Chris McGee
2018-09-02 16:52 ` hiro
2018-09-03 4:07 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-03 12:40 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-03 17:58 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-04 10:51 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-04 11:33 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2018-09-04 11:41 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-02 18:16 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 19:18 ` Steve Simon
2018-09-02 19:21 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-09-03 1:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-09-03 2:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-09-04 23:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-09-04 23:30 ` Tyga
2018-09-05 2:29 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-05 11:23 ` Dave MacFarlane
2018-09-05 11:42 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-05 13:35 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-05 15:38 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-09-05 23:59 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-06 0:32 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-06 3:40 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-06 11:41 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-06 13:37 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-06 17:48 ` Richard Miller
2018-09-06 19:08 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-09-06 21:21 ` Chris McGee
2018-09-07 8:32 ` Richard Miller
2018-09-05 3:25 ` Ori Bernstein
2018-09-05 8:19 ` Ethan Gardener
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