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RE: Objections to / uses of PSVI?

• To: 'Bill de hÓra' <dehora@e...>,<uche.ogbuji@f...>,"'Eric Bohlman'" <ebohlman@e...>
• Subject: RE: Objections to / uses of PSVI?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 08:22:24 +0100
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <002901c1fe8b$eeb1bf20$887ba8c0@mitchum>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > > There's a principle of genetics known as Fisher's
> > Fundamental Theorem
> > > of Natural Selection (after
> > > Sir Ronald Fisher) which states that the better adapted an
> > organism is to its current environment,
> > > the less of a change in its environment it can survive.
> > Gerald Weinberg has observed that this
> > > applies to human inventions as much as to natural
> > organisms, and it particularly applies to
> > > programs and the systems they're part of.

Reminds me of a remark I think by David Hartley: never get into a
situation where all the resources on a computer system are optimally
loaded, because you always need to be able to grow capacity by expanding
one resource.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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