Joe Buck wrote:
(off topic!)
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:40:21PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
Hmmmm .. I wish some of the more important bugs in gcc received
the attention that this very unimportant issue is receiving :-)
I guess the difference is that lots of people can understand
this issue.
Yes, this phenomenon has been given a name, by Parkinson of Parkinson's
law fame: "bike shed".
Actually I don't think Parkinson uses this term. He states a similar
principle as:
* THE LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee's
agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.
