Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:04:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chuckr@mat.net, moore@WOLFENET.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: g++ shared library segfaults Message-ID: <199705102104.OAA04438@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705102004.NAA11689@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at May 10, 97 01:04:44 pm
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> > > > What I am looking for is for experienced programmers that can > > > > come in and do the "job" -- the job being defined as a cool > > > > document program. > > > > > > That job is about 3 man-years worth of work. > > > > Cool. If he can get 365 volunteers (and one leap-volunteer 8-)) > > then he can be done in 3 days. > > Actually, 9 pregnant women can not deliver one baby in a month. > > "Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks first published in 1975. > > For those interested the book is about managing large scale projects. > > Reducing complex problems is not the same as throwing bodies at > a project. I know. I was making the distinction between 9 motivated programmers and throwing 365 bodies at the problem. Jordan seemed to be implying that your call for programmers was a throwing of bodies, and that something that would take 3 many years was not worth pursuing on a voluntary basis. 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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