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From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ugrading edition 2 graphics to edition 3
Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2000 21:40:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008032039.QAA07694@cse.psu.edu> (raw)

>>There's reinvention and there's reimplementation, as advocated by
>>forsyth in `more taste, less greed: sending Unix to the fat farm'

as noted in that paper, i borrowed the distinction
from the EMAS group, particularly their paper
``An Experiment in Doing it Again, But Very Well This Time''
(CSR-18-77 University of Edinburgh):

	By re-implementation, we mean re-programming and altering the
	structure of an existing system where necessary, so as to better implement
	the function of that system.  We distinguish re-implementation from two
	other activities.  These are the transportation of an existing system to
	new hardware, and the design of a new system.  If we transport a system,
	we leave its function and its structure unaltered.  Re-implementation is
	not merely a combination of transportation and re-design, but is a
	unique activity in its own right.  It is doing it again, but very well this time.



             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-03 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-03 20:40 forsyth [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-05  2:27 Anthony Sorace
2000-08-05  2:18 geoff
2000-08-04 17:02 nigel
2000-08-07  8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-04  8:25 forsyth
2000-08-03 23:43 kim kubik
2000-08-04  9:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-04 14:19   ` Andy Newman
2000-08-04 14:37     ` Boyd Roberts
     [not found]       ` <20000805004518.A42947@juju.bsn>
     [not found]         ` <022101bffe66$90ac6640$03c684c3@psychobasketcase.org>
     [not found]           ` <20000805085453.A46136@juju.bsn>
2000-08-04 23:26             ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-07  8:46               ` Alex Danilo
2000-08-07 13:41                 ` Andy Newman
2000-08-07 20:45                 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-03 20:19 geoff
2000-08-04 16:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-04 17:06   ` Matt
2000-08-07  8:44     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-03 19:13 dhog
2000-08-02 20:33 Russ Cox
2000-08-02 16:53 Anthony Sorace
2000-08-02 14:45 rob pike
2000-08-03  8:20 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-03  8:44   ` Doug Henderson
2000-08-03  8:54     ` Boyd Roberts
     [not found]       ` <boyd@noos.fr>
2000-09-11 15:41         ` Tom Duff
2000-08-02 13:23 Doug Henderson

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