On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Eric Kow <ko...@darcs.net> writes:
One of the darcs team members, Thorkil Naur, felt that in my enthusiasm I
was not being sufficiently forthright about darcs's shortcomings.
As for me, I tend to start any review with a list of all the problems I
have with <technology>, on the basis that it's a lot harder to find
informed criticism of a technology than it is to find praise (informed
or otherwise). So I would write an article "Why you shouldn't choose
Darcs", and let readers decide whether the arguments are inadequate.
In general, I also find it more difficult to retrieve well-founded
criticism than to find praise. I like to cite Edsger Dijkstra on this
topic:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD956.html
"Address to my students"
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html
"How do we tell truths that might hurt?"
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