From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] code complexity References: <37088672ac32055400db1684d3dfae65@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: ozan s yigit In-Reply-To: philw@entrisphere.com's message of "Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:42:44 GMT" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:01:14 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4d1d3fd8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 philw@entrisphere.com (philw) writes: > Programming is an art - few people in industry have the luxury > of enjoying it on the macro scale because they work with a large > group that has unreasonable deadlines and business constraints > beyond the engineering. exactly. ever since i left yorku in 94 (these days i work for sun) i've been trying to clean up crappy code written to meet deadlines at any cost. it is very very depressing. even if it started great, it eventually got hacked to the ground. the only chance is to get as many good programmers you can for the initial product, and after that, hope for the best. :) hope your venture is going well. oz -- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | don't count your chickens in glass houses york u. computer science | until the cows come home. -- david vestal