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From: karl lehenbauer
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1989 22:04
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1989 22:04
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In article <[E.ISI.EDU].5-Feb-89.10:38:26.SAC.55SRW-LGS>, SAC.55SRW-LGS@E.ISI.EDU writes: > Got this from an e-mail buddy and systems analyst in Ohio: > If builders built buildings the way programmers write > programs, the first woodpecker to come along would have destroyed > Civilization! Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct because no two parts are alike. If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed. In this respect, software systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound. - Fred Brooks, Jr. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious -- karl@ficc.uu.net encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis O. Brandeis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: More Perspective Humor Message-ID: <3031@ficc.uu.net> Date: 6 Feb 89 22:04:16 GMT References: <[E.ISI.EDU].5-Feb-89.10:38:26.SAC.55SRW-LGS> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 17