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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:26:08 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: Warpstock 2003 Presentation

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> Peter seemingly misses my point on the value of open
> source while at the same time making it for me.

Hey, I'm in Marketing. I am absolutely clueless as to what's going on,
but it's never kept me quiet yet!

> I generally feel that something not functionally necessary
> in assembly code, e.g. Peter's reference to a general
> inclusion of code for something that never occurs, need
> not occur in the code generation of an HLL.

And just *how* is your HLL supposed to know that the ellipses you will
draw shall *always* have a focii axis at 30 degrees to the horizontal?
Or, how will it know that the file you are trying to sort will *never*
have a record more than 16 positions out-of-sequence? The number of
potential optimizations is infinite; at this point I think you're
confusing an HLL with artificial intelligence.

Is that true, Lynn? Is the HLL you envision a secret experiment in AI?

> So, Peter, if you look at the open source business model
> in light of the previous, no reason ever exists why you
> cannot have all three (faster, better, cheaper).

Let's then agree to disagree, because I don't buy it. :))

Open Source has genuine merits. Show me the results.

- Peter

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