27 May
2004
27 May
'04
6:32 a.m.
Sweet! Verbal tennis! I volley:
http://www.machack.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Stevens" <sastevens(a)earthlink.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:00 PM
Subject: RE: for sale etiquette?
Even in computing contexts, many people would say that
methodical and
consistent development work, i.e. the kind of thing someone familiar with
Knuth and who is a trained software engineer, is better than something
'hacked together' by one guy at 4 in the morning.
This is a very debatable topic, of course. But the myth of the 'greatest
software' coming out of hacking sessions is generally rather dubious.
Said
'greatest software' (i.e the much lauded Open
Source/Free Software)
usually
comes out of _many_ so-called hacking sessions, with a
huge amount of
social interaction glueing the development together.