Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:56:47 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | 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 -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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