Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!latcs1!jane From: jane@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jane Philcox) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: S/W, H/W, Engineers, & Creativity Message-ID: <1991May2.044059.20250@latcs2.lat.oz.au> Date: 2 May 91 04:40:59 GMT References: <1991Apr16.124522.16592@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1991Apr18.141639.51@edwards-tems.af.mil> Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 20 In article <1991Apr18.141639.51@edwards-tems.af.mil> martin@edwards-tems.af.mil writes: >No design of any substantial complexity ever achieves perfection, it just >becomes good enough and the designer abandons it to pursue the next one. OR No design ... ever achieves perfection, the designer just gets sick of it and abandons it to pursue the next one. Cynacism aside, all design also has to be a compromise, between ideals and practical reality, where two or more ideals may conflict when it comes to the practical realization. (The perfect characterisation and the length of the book, high lift/low drag wing, the ability to process large chunks of text and the ability to do it fast, ...) You may be better off leaving that compromise and having a try at a better one. Regards, Jane. -- ****************************************************************************** ******* REAL PROGRAMMERS CAN WRITE A FORTRAN PROGRAM IN ANY LANGUAGE ******* ******************************************************************************