Re: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Dan Bale <dbale@samsa.com>
> This very interesting topic is miles above my head, but I share Jon's
> sentiments expressed yesterday.
>

Jon's main point was that because very smart people did it, it has
to be good (or necessary). A warning from Fred Brooks (in the
"Mythical Man-month") comes to mind:
"An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows
he doesn't know what he is doing, so he does it carefully and
with great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after
embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used
"next time". Sooner or later the first system is finished, and the
architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of
that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second system is the most dangerous system a man ever
designs [...]. The general tendency is to over-design the second
system. The result, as Ovid says ("adde parvum parvo magnus
acervus erit") is a big pile."