Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf
From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Comments on book review
Message-ID: <1305@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 13:09:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvacs.1305
Posted: Tue May 15 13:09:33 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 02:14:43 EDT
Lines: 14


Comment on analogy between house-building & programming:

I remember my sheet-metal-worker uncle speaking of the science of
"trimology", concerned with good changes during construction, arising
from necessary departures from specifications.  This always concerned
his own changes.  I also remember him shaking his head ruefully at
bad changes by others, and muttering "What an abortion!"  One of
his favorite bits of humor was an imitation of a carpenter rushing
from one place to another on a building site, holding one arm up high,
and the other out from his side.  "Out of my way," the carpenter says,
"I've got a measurement for a door!"

     Gordon Fisher