On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
> 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.
Asger I find this paragraph particularly funny after having just read your
email in the libsigc++ thread asking them to write some design documents
even if they have to be changed frequently.
[..therefor..]
> 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?
You've got 'merged words' enabled or whatever the ispell setting is.
That is, 'there' + 'for' = 'therefor' which must be spelled correctly
because joined words are accepted.
> 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.
I'll get around to reading it eventually but since we've had several long
discussions on the subject over the last year and a half I'm hoping Asger
made use of cut and paste from those discussions to build his document --
and hence it would only be revision for those of us who read them then.
That doesn't mean its not important. After all, newbies can read and
such documents can get them up to speed about our design decisions
(whether they be collective or individual decisions).
Allan. (ARRae)
