RE: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?

From
Bill de hÓra <>
To
, 'Eric Bohlman' <>
Date
2002-05-18T16:49:08Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?
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>Eric Bohlman
> 
> > 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.  

cf Tom de Marco's "Slack". Premise: highly efficient organisations
are not adaptive.

Bill de hÓra


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