rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette) (06/03/89)
Due to some strangeness with mailers around here, I am just now re-receiving some mail (from the GNU mailing lists) that came in (the first time) several weeks ago. This is good because I am now re-digesting these messages with a much higher retention rate :-) Anyway, I noticed one line in a message sent out by Michael that I thought bears repeating. Indeed, it is sufficiently truthful (and self-evidently so) that I believe that it should henceforth bear the honorary title "Tiemann's Law". Tiemann's Law: Code isn't reusable if it's not usable. :-) // Ron Guilmette - MCC - Experimental Systems Kit Project // 3500 West Balcones Center Drive, Austin, TX 78759 - (512)338-3740 // ARPA: rfg@mcc.com // UUCP: {rutgers,uunet,gatech,ames,pyramid}!cs.utexas.edu!pp!rfg
foote@p.cs.uiuc.edu (06/05/89)
A related principle: Code that hasn't been reused is not reusable. This is a corrolary of: If it ain't been tested, it doesn't work.
jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) (06/07/89)
Here's a couple of my favorites: "If it ain't usable, it ain't reusable." "Its always trivial to write code that can run arbitrarily slow." ^^^^ or languages "Its always trivial to write code that doesn't have to work right." ^^^^ or languages
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd) (06/14/89)
Not to mention my favorite, "If it hasn't been ported, it isn't portable." Who gave us that one, anyway? Sounds a whole lot like Henry Spencer.... -Bennett bet@orion.mc.duke.edu
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/20/89)
In article <14738@duke.cs.duke.edu> bet@bent (Bennett Todd) writes: > "If it hasn't been ported, it isn't portable." > >Who gave us that one, anyway? Sounds a whole lot like Henry Spencer.... I wish I'd said it, but I don't think I did. -- You *can* understand sendmail, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology but it's not worth it. -Collyer| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu