Re:A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub
by gahahaha on Monday August 09, 2010 @07:47AM
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"""I think that the budgetary constraints forced the Russian engineers to look for the simpler, and often more reliable solutions whereas their Western counterparts often took a more development oriented approach."""
"""The OS/360 monitor idea would have never occurred to a European?
No, we were too poor to consider it and we also decided that we should try to structure our designs in such a way that we could keep things under our intellectual control. This was a major difference between European and American attitudes about programming."""
I am reminded of the interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra on HN recently. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/8/96632-an-interview-with... :
"""The OS/360 monitor idea would have never occurred to a European?
No, we were too poor to consider it and we also decided that we should try to structure our designs in such a way that we could keep things under our intellectual control. This was a major difference between European and American attitudes about programming."""