Re: Apple IIGS ROM 1 or ROM 3, which is better?

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jul 12, 3:52 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Polymorph wrote:

<snip>

> I believe that no project should ever be undertaken unless it can
> be completed by less than 20 master programmers.  And I have enough
> experience with large programming projects to know that they are
> essentially doomed to mediocrity by having any programmers under the
> 95th percentile.

hmmm... maybe I'll just say that mediocrity is in the eye of the
beholder; maybe your perception stems from you being an elitist.  :-P

If no project were to be undertaken without 20 master programmers,
then I doubt there would be many projects at all.

I'm not saying that perfection isn't a good thing (hey wouldn't that
be a paradox?!), but many useful things have been created by non-
masters. In fact, I would say that nearly all applications currently
in circulation would not have 20 master programmers responsible for
their creation. Would they be better if they had been coded by masters
- "most probably". Are they still useful even though not being
developed by masters - in most cases "yes". And to me, something that
is useful has value.

>
> Right.  "Straight" OO doctrine is for the _hoi polloi_ of programming,
> not the masters.  The masters invent new paradigms as needed.

Hail the masters. But don't forget the apprentices - where would we be
without them?

>
> (Have I mentioned that I'm an elitist?  ;-)
>
> Virtually anything of value is created by geniuses, and then
> popularized by a few journeymen and countless apprentices who
> repeat the patterns of the geniuses endlessly, and often
> inappropriately.

Are you saying that unless you are a "master" you can create nothing
of value. I disagree, and note my previous arguments.

> Never forget where the real value comes from--and it is *never*
> from following the "rules".

Sounds like anarchy to me.  ;-)

cheers,
-p