[Coco] SDCC and other C topics

[James Dessart]

On 17-Mar-05, at 11:49 AM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

> I think a project of this type should be put on a critical track and 
> given some priority.  If you don't have enough cycles to spare to 
> really "git 'r done" then I would rather see that someone else who can 
> devote more time gets to work on it.

The thing is, if we wait for someone like that to step up to the plate, 
we may never get anything done. But if I'm tinkering on it from time to 
time, that doesn't stop someone else from going and doing it too, and 
doing it better.

I tend to over-engineer things as well, spending too much time thinking 
about projects. I'm perfectly comfortable puttering around on sdcc on 
my own schedule, then having someone else come in and finish it right 
off, making all my work obsolete. That's the great thing about open 
source, if someone is lagging at doing it, someone else can just come 
and do it faster.

I'm perfectly comfortable having my work supplanted by an 
implementation someone else did faster. I've been on enough cancelled 
projects at work that I'm desensitized to writing code that ends up 
dead in a drawer somewhere. :)

James