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We're all doomed!

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:06 pm
by Fred
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."

From: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html

Fred.

Re: We're all doomed!

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:20 am
by malcom2073
Fortunatly, megasquirt is by no means good, or even just.

Re: We're all doomed!

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:33 am
by Bangbug
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."

I've seen this quote before.
Is this a quote?
Is it the original quote?
Not sure it is. (at least for subject matter)
Either way, it's brilliant!

Re: We're all doomed!

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:11 am
by Fred
Bump, some people can't tell the difference between good enough and not good enough, though.