On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:04:21AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> After Joacim's angry and furious rant about the lack of design documents, I
> figured that I would humour him a bit and write 11 pages about the strings and
> encodings in the new kernel. This is thus an experiment to try to prove him
> wrong about the design documents. I hope that nobody will read it, much less
> comment on it, and thus demonstrate that they are useless.
>
I read it. My comments:
You misspelled "therefore".
> Finaly, I hobe you wil notise that I iven tuk the time to spelcheck the
> docuemnt.
Interestingly, ispell claims that "therefor" is a word. I have never seen
this word, except in Asger's writings. Other native English speakers: what's
up?
Sigh. I wish I could comment more intelligently, but I don't know the first
thing about designing this sort of thing.
> If nobody bothers to read this, I think I will have proven my point about
> design documents to Joacim. In that case, consider this effort a one-shot
> deal.
>
> But no matter the outcome of this little experiment, I'm proud to declare it
> this a win-win situation ;-)
I would call it a Pyrrhic victory (but only because I'm trying to show off :)
It's really too bad not to see people at least saying "this looks great!". I
think Joacim is right that we need design discussions, but unfortunately it
seems that Asger is right and noone wants to have them.
-Amir
