Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?

[Scott Parish]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:29:18PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:

> By way of generating "raw materials" to edit into being that web site:
> what are the 5 most important things to say about arch up front?

I suspect that in a small way, revision control systems could suffer
from the same syndrome which Paul Graham talks about with programming
languages:

              As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking
              down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down.
              Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less
              powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used
              to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in
              the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't
              realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird
              languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in
              power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown
              in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks
              in Blub. [1]

What i see as really helping out Arch is to have some success stories
and clear explanations, not all together like what Paul Graham has done
for Lisp, demonstrating just how powerful and productive Arch is, and
possibly alluding to some of the original Over-Arch framework ideals.

sRp

1| http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

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Scott Parish
http://srparish.net/

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