On Saturday 09 May 2020 12:35:35 Jon Elson wrote: > On 05/09/2020 01:12 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > One of the greats in computer science has a series of interesting > > quotes. https://www.azquotes.com/author/15849-Niklaus_Wirth > > > > One I really like is: > > "The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and > > programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its > > entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single > > individual, should probably not be built." ~ Niklaus Wirth > > > > I often wonder if LinuxCNC has reached this point. > > No, the general, overall understanding of LinuxCNC is held > by at least several people. I know I don't > know all areas of it well. But, the area I work in, I do > know fairly well. People like Andy and Robert Ellenberg, as > well as Jeff Epler and Chris Radek seem to know a LOT about > the internals. John Kasunich built hal and interfaced it to > the internals of the old EMC to create EMC2. So, at least > these people really > know it WELL. > > LinuxCNC has reached a point of complexity that is needed to > do CNC tasks on a variety of CNC machine configurations. I > do NOT think it is too complex. > > Jon
I'll have to agree with this last, Jon, these guys have given us the tools to do anything we can imagine and likely stuff we haven't dreamed up yet, like witness Sebastian's playing around on youtube. Its a set of tools, yes, but a set of tools the likes of which the commercial folks are, or damned well should be, green with envy over and no doubt are, borrowing in the long run. Change the compiler, and the src to do an identical job changes so much the courts would never understand its your original code they started with. I am proud to be witness, even as a canary in a coal mine, to this amazing phenomenon, for nearly 2 decades now. But I'd also warn about all you guys getting on the same airplane too, giving TPTB a chance to repeat the takedown that nearly killed Freescale Semi., taking out ALL their top people in one swell foop several years ago. That "crash", when you take a good look at it, was no accident. Stay well guys. Orders from Grandpa Gene. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
