Re: Bozo bit
[email protected] (Steve Fink) Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:35:19 -0800
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.meta |
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| Organization | Digital Integrity |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Nathan Torkington wrote: > > Here's a quote from Jim McCarthy's "Dynamics of Software Development" > that seems relevant given the recent fracas on perl6-language-regexp: > > Someone once asked me, "What's the hardest thing about software > development?" > > I didn't hesitate. "Getting people to think." > > Believe it or not, most people don't want to think. They think they > want to think, but they don't. It's easier not to and to instead flip > the bozo bit--that's what we call it at Microsoft: "That dude's a Wait! He's from Microsoft?!! <flip> :-) (Just kidding!)