Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:28:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Message-ID: <3E2DD7B9.4677E97A@mindspring.com> References: <sj65sjr67h.5sj@localhost.localdomain> <20030120141556.E1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030120160000.F1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <hvadhvp7xi.dhv@localhost.localdomain> <3E2CC016.54BDBA5F@mindspring.com> <824r82pea2.r82@localhost.localdomain>
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Your diagnosis of FreeBSD marketing/change/Brett/etc was interesting and > I agree fully (to the extent I understand "emergent properties" :). Emergent properties: "Usually unintended consequences which are obvious in retrospective analysis, but not obvious before the fact, without a significant understanding of systems engineering, and an application of that knowledge to the system(s) in question." 8-). Or, if you'd prefer: "Things that happen that we didn't expect to happen, but if we did the same things again, the same things would happen, again." 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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