Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Zilvinas Valinskas (zvalinskas@carolina.rr.com)
Sat, 1 Dec 2001 02:07:50 -0500


On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:31:24PM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> [cc list trimmed]
>
> You are confusing the production of Shakespeare with the production of good
> OS code.
>
> The high-level design aspect is that there is a problem to be solved or a
> feature to be provided. That represents a goal. Some goals are good and
> some goals are bad. In many cases, you learn which when you actually do
> the code to implement the goal, and determine whether it helps, hinders, or
> just bloats the OS.
>

Sometimes design only _works_ it's way around problems ...

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Zilvinas Valinskas
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