> All I have to say about 3.5 is that it was so amazingly short and easy
> after I realized that the some of the same ideas from 3.4 work.. the
> longest part of my program is generating the printf!
>
> You may want to check this out
> http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman
>
> Marc Berenbach
Marc -
Well, the longest part of the generated program is
the printfs, so I guess that is fair.
I saw this article yesterday. (Former IBM researcher
who is interested in the evolution of large software.)
There is an article in the NYTimes yesterday or today
about the efforts at Microsoft to build a secure OS.
The resonance between the two articles was very interesting.
Once again, Fred Brooks "Mythical Man Month" is a good
introduction to the problem of "Programming in the Large".
This is an easy read, rather than a dry technical work.
But all of this stuff looks easy until you try to apply it
to reality.
- jeff parker
