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author | grog <grog@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-22 05:02:01 +0000 |
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committer | grog <grog@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-22 05:02:01 +0000 |
commit | fd4191a431a9d48462ae7bf97479dfeb60811408 (patch) | |
tree | c3218f01764e5cd2034917c0a8a2ef0d0335e86a /games | |
parent | 5be96e4b7ceed3291bf4c07504488415106c5d70 (diff) | |
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Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index fa3f888..9a4e28e 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -15408,6 +15408,23 @@ worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? What is a magician but a practicing theorist? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi % +What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each +other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be +improved considerably, because there is a crisis. But there are a few +boundary conditions which apparently have to be satisfied: + + 1. We may not change our thinking habits. + 2. We may not change our programming tools. + 3. We may not change our hardware. + 4. We may not change our tasks. + 5. We may not change the organizational set-up + in which the work has to be done. + +Now under these five immutable boundary conditions, we have to try to +improve matters. This is utterly ridiculous. + +Edsger W. Dijkstra, on receiving the ACM Turing Award in 1972 +% What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Hewitt Key, 1799-1875 |