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Re: Hackers and Painters
From: "Kurt Seifried" <listuser () seifried org>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:01:41 -0600
I like to compare hackers and scientists with architects and construction builders. An architect can be an artist, but doesn't have to be one. Mostbuildings are built using a few standard design rules, nothing artistic aboutit. Only a few buildings are works of art. The same goes for programming.Most programs are built around a few well known design principles. Only a fewprograms are works of art. Groetjes, Peter.
Every time I look at OpenBSD, especially the internals I'm strongly reminded of the German Bauhaus movement and/or high end carpentry tools. Minimalist and functional style, yet at the same time somehow it ends up being very elegant and pleasent to look at and use. As for the carpentry tools just open up a Lee Valley catalog (*) or something similar and you'll see what I mean. It seems to me that "correctness" in many, perhaps all, things leads to a certain kind of beauty (especially by those that understand and appreciate the functionality of the item in question).
* http://www.leevalley.com/images/item/woodworking/planes/05p2901s1.jpg Kurt _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://www.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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