Error analysis

Error analysis

Posted Sep 28, 2009 6:30 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
Parent article: LPC: 25 years of X

Excellent article! Unlike more popular publications most of the readership don't need a marketing blob saying how successful X has been, since we have actually seen how it scales from HPC clusters to pocket devices. OTOH the focus on past errors is a great way to see how it could have been done better -- and learn a few lessons in the way. This is what tells apart good from bad engineers -- the apparent focus on the negative, which is just a way of avoiding such pitfalls in the future. (If you will allow for a pedantic plug, Petroski's "Design Paradigms" presents a few examples from other branches of engineering.)

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