Re: wise words
From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:05:09 GMT
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Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:05:09 GMT
Message-ID: <VBDbg.239$PX3.76_at_trndny09>
"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:5S3bg.9464$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.
Those are wise words indeed. I've heard some other wise words, shuch as:
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
No one motto covers all the cases. Received on Sat May 20 2006 - 14:05:09 CEST