From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 11 23:48:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16151 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16143; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA16950; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:48:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3582210D.C84F40CB@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:49:49 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gartner group article References: <199806120052.TAA25896@nospam.hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly wrote: > > 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 Why thank you, that is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all week. I've cc'd Jordan on this message, hopefully he'll commit the change for us. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message