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   From: Ilya Zakharevich    
      
   On 2011-01-30, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  wrote:   
   >>>> It might be a bit much for one person, but maybe it could be broken    
   >>>> up into manageable chunks and done piecemeal by a small team rather    
   >>>> than trying to do everything at once.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Ironically, someone on one of these let's-write-our-own projects (I    
   >>> forget which. It was a wiki somewhere.) once put forward that very    
   >>> idea, simply with a larger granularity and a wider overall scope. One    
   >>> person/group develops Presentation Manager. One provides a    
   >>> command-line interpreter and ancillary command line utilities. One    
   >>> provides a Workplace Shell. One provides an installer. One provides a    
   >>> kernel. ...   
   >>>   
   >> Given that PM is about 2 orders of magnitude more work-intensive than    
   >> a shell, I would consider such a "project" a sheer lunacy.   
      
   > You haven't actually measured how work-intensive it would be to    
   > implement, though, have you?  Your order of magnitude is just a guess.   
      
   Sure - as anything else in programming, it is just a guess.  But   
   education pays.   
      
   Ilya   
      
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