And so the counting of angels has begun (or continued).

Eliot

On 7/30/09 4:34 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> On  30 Jul 2009, at 09:54, Eliot Lear wrote:
>> On 7/30/09 3:24 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On  30 Jul 2009, at 02:40, Scott Brim wrote:
>>>> I just wonder if they all should be solved with the same mechanism.
>>>
>>> I suggested that we needed an architecture that supports the
>>> broad range of issues before the RG.  Eliot sought an example,
>>> so I provided *an example*.
>>>
>>> Now you and Eliot have both gotten bogged down in the example,
>>> and discussion of architecture seems gone from the thread.
>>
>> I raised engineering constraints that we need to consider when designing
>> a system, and by no means all of them.  Determining the point at which
>> that crosses to architecture should occur directly after we've counted
>> the number of angels on a pin.
>
> No.  You saw it yourself.  As soon as the phrase "engineering
> constraints" appears, one has left architecture behind and crossed over
> into engineering.
>
> Mind, it is very important to get the engineering right.  The Internet
> community keeps learning the hard way that it is also very important
> to sort out the architecture BEFORE crossing over into engineering.
>
> This is the kind of thing that jnc and some others of us have been
> saying for a few years now on this list, so it is neither a new thought
> nor uniquely mine.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ran
>
>

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