[openbeos] Re: Thread on OsNews...
- From: "Zenja Solaja" <zenja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:04:39 +1000
No design, eh? I feel that everywhere I go people complain about the
modularity and design of the code they work with, and yes, even BeInc isn't
immune to all the horror every single software project under the sun faces.
I guess we all get a warm fuzzy feeling when looking at our own code, which
can explain why we believe that all code not written by ourselves is
absolute crap. As we gain experience, we are disgusted with our own code
which was brilliant only 6 months ago. That is a basic fact in the industry
we're in.
I am positive that OpenBeOS code will initially be bad. As we gain
experience, we will revisit each module and redo each component (can someone
say refactoring and redesigning - thats why there is so much enphasis on
prototyping these days, at least when there is no rush to market).
Eventually, after years of pruneing and weeding (Pragmatic Programmer) the
code may eventually evolve to a thing of beaty. Thats just a fact of life.
Heck, it wasn't until W2K that M$ made a decent OS. How long did it take
them? Although academic to discuss now, BeOS would have also evolved to a
point where its developers considered it to be "less sucky".
Lets hope that Palm do something with the code. Even if they decide its
garbage, the best we can hope for is that they throw that garbage our way.
One persons garbage, another persons gold. This is the age of recycling,
you know. Any ex-BeInc engineer got a floppy (or CDR) with code worth
distributing to the underground?
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru
Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2001 5:13 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Thread on OsNews...
> The thread is disussing BeOS / AtheOS kernel, multithreading, pro/cons of
> the BeOS design, ...
Oh, you mean, there *was* a design? Damn, they could have told me.
>Jean-Baptiste Queru ((ex?) Be engineer)
Yes, ex-Be engineer, and probably ex-Be engineer forever.
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Jean-Baptiste Queru <jb@xxxxxxxxx>
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