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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:26:57 -0600
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just because you can't see the source, doesn't make it any better.

the worst code i ever worked with was icem/ddn, a cad program
that was a mixture of fortran, c and c++. complete with holorith
data, computed-gotos, overlays, and holorith data.

that was also the program, of all that i've worked on, that 
customers liked most.

- erik

Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> writes

| 
| it would certainly be more fun if the a significant amount of
| open source wasn't open crap.
| 
| brucee
| 
| On 1/21/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
| > Excuses, excuses. I thought the mantra was "Given enough
| > eyeballs all bugs are shallow"? Maybe they should augment the
| > rooms full of penguins typing code with rooms full of spiders
| > giving it the eight-eyeball lookover. Also, what is behind
| > the eyeballs, the skills can be shallower than the bugs.
| >
| > --jim
| >