26 Jun
2009
26 Jun
'09
7:05 a.m.
On Jun 25, 2009, at 13:31 , Henry Laxen wrote:
It reminds me of a saying I heard once. If carpenters built houses the way programmers write programs, you could walk into any house, remove any single nail, and the structure would collapse into pieces no larger than toothpicks.
Weinberg's Law: "If carpenters built houses the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH