Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:40:27 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff Message-ID: <199801281840.LAA05323@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199801281834.LAA27643@dnstoo.consys.com> References: <199801281820.LAA05134@mt.sri.com> <199801281834.LAA27643@dnstoo.consys.com>
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> familiar to pure software engineers. As far as a product goes, > an operating system is peanuts compared to something like > a ship, say. Or even a car, these days. Somehow, those get > built. W/out any user intevention? Amazing how it requires users to build them, isn't it? Yes, it *could* all be automated, but the 'resources' required to do it is greater than requiring humans doing the work. Now, in a weird twist of fate, that is exactly the same thing I said. Nate ps. Yes, given enough time and resources, anything can be automated. But, the end result may be more expensive than is worthwhile. Now, I wouldn't have any ideas on that given that I work for one of the three largest R&D companies in the world, who come up with all sort of wonderful (and often times quite expensive) solutions to existing and some non-existant problems. :)
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