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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:56:47 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper change granularity (was Re: A modest proposal -- We
 need a patch penguin)
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2002 11:38 am, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > You are presupposing that all the developers are checking in many bad
> > changes and only one good change.  And that all the bad changes are
> > obscuring the good ones.  That a correct statement of your beliefs?
> >
> > If so, what you are describing is called "hacking" in the negative
> > sense of the word, and what my customers do is called "programming".
>
> Designing while coding is not a bad thing.  It's often considerably more
> efficient than spending a bunch of time up front coming up with an ivory
> tower design that doesn't work in practice.  Very few battle plans survive
> the first engagement with the enemy.  (It's nice to HAVE one.  But if you
> can't adapt when you're in the thick of things, you're in trouble.)

You're confusing designing with "coming up with the most
inflexible idea possible".

I believe this says more about your experience (or skills)
with designing than about the practice of coming up with
a design before you start implementing.

regards,

Rik
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