tito via Dng said on Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:35:23 +0200


>Helping Steve in his modular approach that is already one
>development step further than my idea if you have the skills
>wouldn't be a committee. Have you ever heard of 2 people's committees?

Make that 3 people. If we get that far, I'll do the conversion from
titofile to run script.

About committees: If programmers are programming to scratch an itch and
not because redhat is paying them or because they think participating
in a big project gets them better job prospects, any one developer can
do an end run around the committee just by coding the component under
question. True story...

I originated the VimOutliner project in 2001, but by 2003 the majority
of the work was done by programmers more skilled than I. We were all
kind of a committee, on the VimOutliner mailing list, and for the most
part it worked. But once somebody got the crazy idea of using the space
character to designate body text in the outline. This would have meant
mixing tabs and spaces, and Stevie don't play that. So after about 3
days argument, I simply coded the thing using a colon to precede body
text and put it in the code. What are they going to say, no?

Another programmer implemented it with a space, so I put in a switch so
each user could pick his method, the other guy created a way to switch
back and forth between the two methods, and everyone was happy. After a
year, the space way stopped being used, fell into disuse, and
eventually broke, which bothered nobody. You can't stop a coder from
coding.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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