[KLUG Members] Software Theory

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:19:04PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Actually GNOME didn't start out with a component model.  GNOME's focus
> was code re-use,  and they thought they could accomplish it with
> cleverly constructed shared libraries.  KDE actually started out with
> more of a component model (including the use of CORBA) but abandoned it
> due to performance problems and the fact that developers weren't
> familiar with the technology.  Thus KDE experienced faster initial
> development,  and why (according to many) GNOME application developement
> is only now really starting to pick up steam.

You lost me. Did KDE develop faster due to early experimentation with
component models or abandonment of the same? ;)

KDE also started much earlier, did it not?

> 1.  Can you really conceive of a Perfect God?  Or are you just
> conceiving of the conception of a Perfect God?

Exactly. How perfect is my conception of perfection. I am not perfect, so
how may my idea of perfection be perfect? My conception of infinity is
merely my idea of huge immensity with a cleverly drawn matte effect showing
parallel lines converging (or rather, implying convergence at some
unimaginable distance. Even the idea of unimaginable distance, if applied to
Descartes claim of perfect ideas, seems to destroy his own theory).

> Isn't it possible that the "perfect SO" could in fact be the worst
> imagineable SO?  They're would be no point in discussing anything.

Who said we'd be talking? <evil grin>

> Anyone writen a compiler using a shell script?

I was going to use this as an example. O'Reilly's _Unix Power Tools_
contains a short script which shows bash emulating bash, heh.