Was AOL letter, now forking
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Feb 6 14:13:53 CST 2002
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Turk
>Brian, building and refining on Brad's point,
>is most certainly correct; however, it should
>also be added that a new system is dead as soon
>as there are standards which are strongly enforced
>and adhered to. ...
I don't buy that reasoning. Standards help to create
a common working ground and every computer program written
conforms to standards. Without standards, my C code wouldn't
necessarily compile on your C compiler and vice versa.
>I don't think many will wish to return to the
>intellectual oppression of standards. 8^P
Of course this whole reply could just have been flame-bait. And I love
a good hot-fiery bowl of Chili, so bring it on.
;')
>Thus spake the master programmer:
> "Let the programmers be many and the managers be few —
> then all be productive"
> -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Brian
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