Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:06:41 -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: <199704012206.PAA12178@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704012051.NAA05487@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 1, 97 01:51:48 pm
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> 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.
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