Comments on: Incremental Twiddling http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7323/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: buggsy2 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7323/#comment-6406 buggsy2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7323/#comment-6406 COB! Use a copyreader!!! COB! Use a copyreader!!!

]]> By: billtodd http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7323/#comment-6407 billtodd Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7323/#comment-6407 When one spends as much time as you did on a generalization it helps if it's truly general. "I’m sure you started with a simple example program" just doesn't apply to everyone - for example, I began programming by learning assembler, studying the file system code that I'd be working with, and eventually starting to add to it, debug the result, and ship it. I did write a file system exerciser or two along the way, but they didn't start nearly as simple as hello.c (which if it existed at all back then was likely still largely confined to Bell Labs).<br /> <br /> Rambling discourse tends to be self-indulgent: perhaps you're over-compensating for the enforced brevity of your tweets. What you had to say above could have been expressed well in a couple of not-overly-long paragraphs, and doing so would have saved your readers a fair amount of time.<br /> <br /> - bill When one spends as much time as you did on a generalization it helps if it’s truly general. “I’m sure you started with a simple example program” just doesn’t apply to everyone – for example, I began programming by learning assembler, studying the file system code that I’d be working with, and eventually starting to add to it, debug the result, and ship it. I did write a file system exerciser or two along the way, but they didn’t start nearly as simple as hello.c (which if it existed at all back then was likely still largely confined to Bell Labs).

Rambling discourse tends to be self-indulgent: perhaps you’re over-compensating for the enforced brevity of your tweets. What you had to say above could have been expressed well in a couple of not-overly-long paragraphs, and doing so would have saved your readers a fair amount of time.

- bill

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