Autocoding project proposal.

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:59:55 +0000 (UTC), Huaiyu Zhu <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>I'm asking for help in creating this tool. If you are going to wait until
>>it's done, then what will you have to offer? Maybe your just an end user,
>>waiting to use it. And that's OK, because that's who this tool is also
>>for.
>
>As I understand, nobody is saying that people should only join a project
>when it is done.  In fact, a good project will live a very long time, 

And will never be "done". Is Linux ever going to be finished? 

>As an aside, I've been working on the subject of "goal-oriented computing"

What is that?

>for several years.  The proof of concept demo can be printed on two pages.
>But the real code has gone over five or six complete rewrites, each with at
>least a few thousand lines of code.  I'm still not releasing it because I
>fear people would lose interest if it is released prematurely.
>
>Why all these hesitations?  Because as they say: the devil is in the
>details.  Many grand ideas look very promising from a distance, but becomes
>quite infeasible when you get close and get your hand dirty actually doing
>it.

This is indeed true.


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