Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:38:11 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Recently, our correspondent from Wales wrote: > ... the changes have been done and > tested one at a time as they are merged. Real engineering process is the > only way to get this sort of thing working well.
Which doesn't conflict. Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
> All the alchemists ever managed to create were cases of mercury > poisoning.
and chemistry, eventually. You take it as far more demeaning than its meant.
But right now given two chunks of code, I find out what happens by putting them together not by formal methods. In the case of alchemy v chemistry the chemists know whether it will probably go bang before they try it (and the chemical engineers still duck anyway)
Alan
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