Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Rik van Riel
2001-12-01T18:22:08Z

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:18:54AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Biological selection does nothing except removing the weak
> > ones, it cannot automatically create systems which work well.
> >
> > In short, I believe the biological selection is just that,
> > selection. The creation of stuff will need some direction.
>
> Creation is as simple as:
>
> 1. If you encounter a problem, try to solve it.
> 2. If you cannot solve it, mark/document/publish it and try to
> work around it for now.
> 3. If you cannot work around it, leave it to other people and
> offer help.
>
> Which is pretty much what this list here is for ;-)

4. If the problem cannot be solved with a quick hack by
one person, give up and switch to another OS.

Rik
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