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From: "Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 - The Long Thread
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:42:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c612fc60806120042r1d6a493r72b6046592d28796@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484E94FB.4090700@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> There's a lot to be said about being stuck in the "grand design mindset".  I
> know many Gentoo, Portage, Exherbo, and Paludis developers are clearly
> coming to that point in their programming careers based on the comments on
> this thread and other threads. I would just like to caution everyone that
> they really need to get past this plateau in their programming careers and
> get on to the real mindset that matters in the future. The "use case"
> mindset.

Georges Clemenceau once said : "War is too serious a matter to entrust
to military men". There surely is something to be said along these
lines about software design and programmers.

Denis.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 14:51 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 - The Long Thread Doug Goldstein
2008-06-10 14:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-06-10 19:43   ` Doug Goldstein
2008-06-11  3:16     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-06-12  7:42 ` Denis Dupeyron [this message]

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