wise words
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:24:49 GMT
Message-ID: <5S3bg.9464$A26.236139_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
I stumbled across some wise words that resonate with me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs quoted from Eric S. Raymond:
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:24:49 GMT
Message-ID: <5S3bg.9464$A26.236139_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
I stumbled across some wise words that resonate with me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs quoted from Eric S. Raymond:
"The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."
He was talking about Bell Labs' attempt to replace Unix with a better unix-like OS. But his words ring just as true for SQL and a host of other computing languages. Received on Thu May 18 2006 - 21:24:49 CEST