Re: [linux-audio-dev] BeOS everywhere

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] BeOS everywhere
From: Fredrik (aeonek_AT_home.se)
Date: to tammi  27 2000 - 09:52:40 EST


> The biggest problem for us is probably time. We can't put people on
> MuCoS full time to get it working a soon as it could be, so we might
> well lose the first round to VST due to being late with a working
> alternative.

You sound very sure that VST is on it's way to Linux. I think it will be at least two years before a final version.
 
> This is the way it's always been with Free Software, but I believe
> some more "Worse is Better" and a little less of Creating the Perfect
> Design could help - working but ugly code is better than no code at
> all. However, there also has to be a chance of fixing that ugly
> code... (The problem is that the performance requirements eliminate
> most chances of abstraction of the internals on the API level.)

One way to do a good design is to do a bad one first. In the words of Fred Brooks (The Mytical Man-Month):
"Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."

    /Fredrik


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