On 11/10/2010 6:47 AM, Invisible wrote:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/LetGeneralisationInGhc7
>
> "The old [engine] had grown to resemble the closing stages of a game of
> Jenga, in which making any change was a delicate operation that risked
> bringing the whole edifice crashing down. In particular, there were a
> dozen open bugs [...] that I had no idea how to fix."
>
> I think that's a really amusing quote. How many of you have worked on
> programs that look like "the closing stages of a game of Jenga"? :-D

If you don't manage a project properly, anything non-trivial can turn 
into that.

I suppose project managers should remember that whenever the 
requirements change, the project goes back to square one.  And they 
should promise accordingly.  And their bosses should accept this.

Regards,
John

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