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- From: travis@eecs.nwu.edu (Travis Marlatte)
- Subject: Re: collective program design
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.000015.10806@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Rauland-Borg Corporation, Skokie IL
- References: <fkaiser.724352429@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:00:15 GMT
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- In article <fkaiser.724352429@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> fkaiser@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Frank Kaiser) writes:
- >The best public domain programs known were created by many programmers
- >working together. Everyone of these did a little share of work.
-
- I doubt it. Even if you could provide specific examples, it would be hard
- to claim that all, even most of the best PD programs were created my
- multiple people working TOGETHER.
-
- No doubt, many of the best PD programs were evolved by many people. Not
- working together but rather each one contributing his or her own talents
- when the need and interest arose.
-
- >But the begin and development of such a workgroup was a result of randomness.
-
- I don't think that randomness is an appropriate way to describe it.
- Undirected maybe.
- >
- >For the development of such a project, one could thing of a bbs, where
- >everyone willing to take a part of the burden can find a task to solve.
- >This procedure should have to be higly formalized in a top-down-manner.
-
- Oh, that kind of randomness.
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- Travis Marlatte
- travis@eecs.nwu.edu
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