Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote: > Boosters, FreeBSD hackers, and I'm sure tons of others are calling this > the "Bicycle shed effect." > > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING>
If I'm building a bicycle shed, I may want to talk with others who have done so in the past, learning from the experience and gaining their insights. Why did they use a certain type of construction? What sort of storage did they build in? What worked and didn't work for someone else who has already built a shed? What did they learn from their own work? Any shed I build will be better for such discussions. GCC's floating-point support can be improved by considering what people want from their math in conjunction with the characteristics of different systems. Discussions herein have clarified and expanded my understanding of the issues. > In all of the open source world I have seen, posting code is always better. Better than what? Design? Analysis? Just because some people like to nitpick doesn't mean there shouldn't be forethought to our work. Be that as it may, one must work within the presiding culture, and if design and analysis are frowned upon, it is directly to code that I will go. ..Scott
