On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:30 -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote: > > Boosters, FreeBSD hackers, and I'm sure tons of others are calling this > > the "Bicycle shed effect." > > > > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING> > > If I'm building a bicycle shed, I may want to talk with others who have > done so in the past, learning from the experience and gaining their > insights. Why did they use a certain type of construction? What sort of > storage did they build in? What worked and didn't work for someone else > who has already built a shed? What did they learn from their own work? > Any shed I build will be better for such discussions. > > GCC's floating-point support can be improved by considering what people > want from their math in conjunction with the characteristics of > different systems. Discussions herein have clarified and expanded my > understanding of the issues. > > > In all of the open source world I have seen, posting code is always better. > > Better than what? Design? Analysis? Just because some people like to > nitpick doesn't mean there shouldn't be forethought to our work. > > Be that as it may, one must work within the presiding culture, and if > design and analysis are frowned upon, it is directly to code that I will go. Design and analysis is not frowned upon. Endless design and analysis over minutae is. Code and design can be revised.
> > ..Scott
