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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:17:27 -0600
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?
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i don't personally know any lazy engineers, but i do know quite a few that are scared of
being the scapegoat.

i worked on a big full-text search project that never wrote its own
search engine.  we used OpenText pat, pls/cpl (later bought by aol), excalibur,
inktomi hosted search and probablly a few that have been forgotten.  these interfaces
were very difficult to write because what we needed from a full-text search engine
was never what was provided, they all had major bugs and performace was generally very
poor.

yet -- though i'm convinced it would have been easier, and the results better --
nobody had the guts to write an engine.

- erik

On Tue Mar 28 20:08:59 CST 2006, plalonde@telus.net wrote:
>
> It happens because engineers are too lazy or scared to try to
> understand the code they are modifying, and a layer seems safer.  My
> case was 3 years of 2 code teams.  Imagine 10 years of open-source-
> like distributed development :-(
>
> Paul
>