All Wietse Venema Quotes
I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.
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Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
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As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
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For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
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Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
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Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
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