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- Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!chip
- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
- Message-ID: <2B40B0AD.5877@tct.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10:21 GMT
- References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp>
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
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- According to gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman):
- > Tzu-Pei Chen
- >"The design of AUSROC II was in many ways too "positive". [...]
- >Obviously, greater testing of each component may have shown up some
- >of these problems earlier. This simply highlights the very limited
- >resources with which the group currently works.
-
- What an obvious straw man, Gary! You picked an underfunded project,
- which by simple lack of money was _forced_ into a schedule that
- allowed for little unit testing. You then use its almost inevitable
- failure as a bludgen to beat up the well-funded DC-1 program.
-
- For shame.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
-