From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 11 18:43:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28685 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28616 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-36.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.36]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA13096; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 20:43:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25896; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:52:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806120052.TAA25896@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: gartner group article In-reply-to: Message from Wes Peters of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:53:10 MDT." <3580C246.162391E3@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:52:46 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters writes: [...] > developing large software projects. In fact, I'll go so far as > to coin "Wes Peters corollary to Brooks Law:" > > "Adding thousands of programmers to a slow program makes it slower." That belongs somewhere in /usr/share/games/fortune/*.dat -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message