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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?
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Scott Parish |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains? |
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:17:29 +0000 |
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:29:18PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> By way of generating "raw materials" to edit into being that web site:
> what are the 5 most important things to say about arch up front?
I suspect that in a small way, revision control systems could suffer
from the same syndrome which Paul Graham talks about with programming
languages:
As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking
down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down.
Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less
powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used
to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in
the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't
realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird
languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in
power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown
in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks
in Blub. [1]
What i see as really helping out Arch is to have some success stories
and clear explanations, not all together like what Paul Graham has done
for Lisp, demonstrating just how powerful and productive Arch is, and
possibly alluding to some of the original Over-Arch framework ideals.
sRp
1| http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: may I pick your brains?, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?, Paul Pelzl, 2004/02/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?, Aaron Bentley, 2004/02/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?, Robert Collins, 2004/02/24
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?,
Scott Parish <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?, Paul Cory, 2004/02/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?, Robert Anderson, 2004/02/23