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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bge
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:04:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190603091304r4d14e0aft9a3c759292546ee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180603091212i4413f506of6384b66a27aa236@mail.gmail.com>

it's  a matter of balance, i find.  if you write the code without
thinking through the design you are doomed, except for
very trivial tasks.  if you think through the design, and think,
and think, and never code then you may have had fun but
don't end up with a program.

brucee

On 3/10/06, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > it's great that you can just think through the design
> > without coding anything.  i wish i could do that.
>
> the rise of the philosopher programmer, surely! programmers who write
> code are dead like the dinosaurs.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-09 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-11  2:42 [9fans] SSH v2 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11  3:03 ` jmk
2006-02-11  3:37   ` [9fans] bge Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11  4:12     ` jmk
2006-02-11  4:16       ` jmk
2006-02-11  4:23       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-09 19:37       ` jmk
2006-03-09 19:45         ` uriel
2006-03-09 19:57           ` Russ Cox
2006-03-09 20:12             ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-09 21:04               ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2006-03-09 21:18                 ` jmk
2006-03-09 23:32           ` Dan Cross
2006-03-10  6:44             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-10 13:41               ` Dan Cross
2006-02-11  3:10 ` [9fans] SSH v2 Russ Cox
2006-02-14  6:56   ` William Josephson

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