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To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Date: 02 Dec 2001 10:30:52 +0100
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> What is the deep thought in this, it's that if you've time for deep
> planning/design it means that nobody is actually using your software
> and when your cutting edge, well designed implementation will see
> the light, noone is gonna use it because they've already embraced
> something else.

Also known as "Worse is Better":

  http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles/good-news/subsection3.2.1.html

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Lars Brinkhoff          http://lars.nocrew.org/     Linux, GCC, PDP-10
Brinkhoff Consulting    http://www.brinkhoff.se/    programming
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