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Gossamer Condor style.

Jerome Peace
Gossamer Condor style.

Crash(learn), patch, test,
    crash(learn), patch, test, ...
        in a very tight quick cycle. :-)

>Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
>Wed Feb 6 01:13:28 UTC 2008
>wrote (amoung other things).

>  I don't know what Gossamer Condor style is, but
sounds like we are
> in some kind of agreement.

The Gossamer Condor was Paul MacCready's man powered
flying machine.

The development style was crash(learn), patch, test,
crash(learn), patch, test,... in a very tight loop.
This got his plane to win the prize while the British
Royal Whatsit folks were still in the
big-design-up-front stage.

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/mac0-041

and you may wish to follow the links.

As you may guess, MacCready is one of my modern day
science heroes.

Cheers --Jer


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Re: Gossamer Condor style.

Nicolas Cellier-3
Funny because Gossamer is also a trademark for... Condom.
http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/catalog/durex-gossamer-condoms-singles-p-62.html

I first thought your idea was to protect your code
(with a lot of tests).

Nicolas


Jerome Peace a écrit :

> Gossamer Condor style.
>
> Crash(learn), patch, test,
>     crash(learn), patch, test, ...
>         in a very tight quick cycle. :-)
>
>> Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
>> Wed Feb 6 01:13:28 UTC 2008
>> wrote (amoung other things).
>
>>  I don't know what Gossamer Condor style is, but
> sounds like we are
>> in some kind of agreement.
>
> The Gossamer Condor was Paul MacCready's man powered
> flying machine.
>
> The development style was crash(learn), patch, test,
> crash(learn), patch, test,... in a very tight loop.
> This got his plane to win the prize while the British
> Royal Whatsit folks were still in the
> big-design-up-front stage.
>
> http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/mac0-041
>
> and you may wish to follow the links.
>
> As you may guess, MacCready is one of my modern day
> science heroes.
>
> Cheers --Jer
>
>
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Re: Gossamer Condor style.

Yoshiki Ohshima-2
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  Jerome,

> The Gossamer Condor was Paul MacCready's man powered
> flying machine.

  Ah, that makes the connection, Paul was one of Viewpoints advisors
and I know the story except the name.

> The development style was crash(learn), patch, test,
> crash(learn), patch, test,... in a very tight loop.
> This got his plane to win the prize while the British
> Royal Whatsit folks were still in the
> big-design-up-front stage.
>
> http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/mac0-041
>
> and you may wish to follow the links.
>
> As you may guess, MacCready is one of my modern day
> science heroes.

  Yes.  The trick also is that great thought was put to be able to do
the iteraction fast; such as to make it fixable by duct tapes.  While
others needs months for an iteration, hours to days for him.

  Thank you!

-- Yoshiki