Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:27:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@mt.sri.com, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internal clock Message-ID: <199704012027.NAA12015@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704012005.NAA05171@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 1, 97 01:05:03 pm
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> > Better that it be lost forever? > > Yes. You can't be serious. You must be engaging in devil's advocacy... > > Code shouldn't need a hell of a lot of maintenance, if the interfaces > > for plugging the code in are fairly static and well enough designed > > that they can remain that way. > > Yeah, right. If that were the case, you and I wouldn't be paid the big > bucks to be software engineers, since any poor schmuck off the street > could do our job. And your point is that we are somehow superior to the average schmuck because we write code that needs a lot of maintenance? 8-). Really, the issue is one of designing good kernel interfaces, not the software that plugs into them. Are you saying that the general antipathy against well designed kernel interfaces is a result of engineers attempting to maintain job security? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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