From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: You might enjoy this
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:46:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4665E7B1.7010502@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6395dbad6ef42a267fe14fd5b5384ffc@9netics.com>
Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>>> http://www.joeyoder.com/papers/patterns/BBOM/mud.html
>
> i offer my counter diatribe/extrapolation for peer review:
>
*snip*
>
> elegance and efficiency of software become major factors only if a
> software malfunction can adversely affect the survival of the
> company that produces it; which usually means it must cause loss
> of life or property.
>
>
Seems the automobile, tire, and tobacco companies have disproved concerns about
'loss of life', the Credit Card companies and tax man disproved the bit about
'loss of property', and Micros**t has confirmed both (given incremental 'loss of
life', i..e hours wasted..).
All we seem to have to worry about really is trans fats in the code and
politically incorrect statements...
No shortage of either... Beware of neighbors carrying rope...
;-)
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200706051447.l55El0ma028778@sparkle.iba.co.za>
2007-06-05 17:52 ` lucio
2007-06-05 18:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-05 18:08 ` lucio
2007-06-05 18:24 ` Sape Mullender
2007-06-05 18:29 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-05 18:39 ` john
2007-06-05 18:55 ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-05 19:46 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-05 20:02 ` W B Hacker
2007-06-05 21:34 ` Gregory Pavelcak
2007-06-05 21:50 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-05 22:46 ` W B Hacker [this message]
2007-06-05 23:00 ` W B Hacker
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