From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 14:24:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07337 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA07306 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:24:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA12178; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:06:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704012206.PAA12178@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Internal clock To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:06:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@mt.sri.com, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704012051.NAA05487@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 1, 97 01:51:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Software 'engineering' is something I spent significant time studying, > and no matter how good you are maintenance makes up 90% of the 'time' > spent on code for most projects. One could argue that the entire > FreeBSD project is doing 'maintenance' on the CSRG code tree. I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that maintenance time should be front-loaded by breaking the problem into cleanly divisable component areas, etc.. > > Really, the issue is one of designing good kernel interfaces, not the > > software that plugs into them. > > Really, the issue of putting a man on Mars is designing a good space > ship, not actually building the darn ship. And verifying the validity of the design... the simplest means being by putting a man on Mars. 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.