From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:52:54 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20081226185254.GA1176@polynum.com> References: <20081226181428.GA1109@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71525eec-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:20:17PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > appropriately, this being a plan 9 list and all, i find code > written from the bottom up easier to read. > Depending on the task (on the aim of the software), one happens to split from top to bottom, and to review and amend from bottom to top. There is a navigation between the two. Bottom to top is more easier because you are building more complicate stuff from basic stuff. But the definition of these elements (the software ortho normal base), the justification of these elements can be in part, has to be in part, a result of a top to bottom thought. The general papers about Unix and Plan 9, the explanations of the logics of the whole can not be, IMHO, tagged as "bottom to top". They are simply to the point ;) -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C