[darcs-devel] If Version Control Systems were Airlines

Eric Y. Kow eric.kow at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 23:09:59 UTC 2008


If I may post a small excerpt from John Goerzen's recent blog post...

  http://changelog.complete.org/posts/698-If-Version-Control-Systems-were-Airlines.html

(take from it what you will)

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Darcs Airlines:  Unlike every other airline, this one uses physicists instead
of engineers to design its airplanes. One brilliant Darcs physicist has finally
come up with The Theory of Everything, and as such, Darcs knows where you want
to go before even you do. Darcs airlines prides itself on customer service, and
asks your preference for even the tiniest details about your trip.

Each seat pocket features a copy of the Theory of Everything for your reading
enjoyment, but nobody actually understands it.

Occasionally, you will find that Darcs pilots get into angry conflicts with the
control tower in mid-flight. This results in the control tower revoking your
permission to land. Legend has it that one Darcs pilot of a plane with
exceptionally large fuel tanks actually resolved his conflict with the tower
and landed two weeks after taking off. Experienced Darcs users board with
several parachutes: one for themselves, and a few more for the newbies.

The Darcs physicists claim that the Theory of Everything predicted the pilots
would act this way, and that all pilots eventually act this way throughout the
entire universe. They toil day and night finding a way to adjust the
gravitational constant of the universe, thereby reducing the anger factor of
the pilots.

Main competitor: OS/2 airlines.

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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