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• Subject: RE: Fwd: War of Attrition (was: Underwhelmed(WAS: XOM micro tutorial))
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:22:07 -0400
• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE0DF70F@h...>

9/23/2002 5:09:48 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote:

>Umm... that's pretty conspiratorial.  Lots of forces 
>can drive complexity into a system.

Just a reminder/disclaimer, I was not the author of that bit, just forwarded it
to the list.

I do agree that the *intent* was probably not conspiratorial.  Still,
I'm very afraid that the *outcome* will be much as Ari noted:
"the winner will throw away the specs it used to win the battle."

<MyCanonicalRantYouAreAllSickOf>
The way to avoid that scenario is to use the minimum "profiles" of the
specs that can be understood by humans, coded by hand, and explained to
non-geeks.
</MyCanonicalRantYouAreAllSickOf>

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