http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/07/working-effectively-with-legacy-gardens/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/07/working-effectively-with-legacy-gardens/#comment-7655 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » legacy gardens, revisited Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:35:14 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/07/working-effectively-with-legacy-gardens/#comment-7655 [...] It seems that I should have pushed my earlier gardening/programming analogy further. After all, we all know what happens when we rip out code with plans to rewrite it: rewriting always turns out to be harder than we thought, and it usually would have been better to improve matters in place. [...] [...] It seems that I should have pushed my earlier gardening/programming analogy further. After all, we all know what happens when we rip out code with plans to rewrite it: rewriting always turns out to be harder than we thought, and it usually would have been better to improve matters in place. [...]

]]> http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/07/working-effectively-with-legacy-gardens/#comment-5809 Joe Pallas Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:01:35 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/07/working-effectively-with-legacy-gardens/#comment-5809 The male equivalent of a dryad? <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dryads.html" rel="nofollow">Some random authoritative-sounding website</a> says dryads are tree nymphs, and <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/n/nymphs.html" rel="nofollow">the male counterpart of a nymph is a satyr</a>. Satyrs don't seem to be organized the way nymphs are, perhaps because their responsibilities ("drinking, dancing, and chasing nymphs") are so much simpler. The male equivalent of a dryad? Some random authoritative-sounding website says dryads are tree nymphs, and the male counterpart of a nymph is a satyr. Satyrs don’t seem to be organized the way nymphs are, perhaps because their responsibilities (”drinking, dancing, and chasing nymphs”) are so much simpler.

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