7 Jan
2019
7 Jan
'19
2:38 a.m.
On 2019-01-06 6:41 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
...
As others have said, I don't conflate coding prowess with the ability to
design. I've had many an argument with John Gilmore (one of the people
who doesn't mind footing the cleaning and repair bill after allowing RMS
to stay at his place) where he begins with "When I wrote GNU tar..."
I've
always responded by saying that writing tar is no big deal; the specification
was the hard part.
Hear, hear. I'd aver this is very much the case in any typical
software-related day job, and _definitely_ mine.
--Toby