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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 04:20:02 -0600
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     "Only an individual or a small group of people can grasp and keep sight of
the overall aims of a major project.  Most people must spend so much of their
time on sub-projects, technical details, or day-to-day administration that the
overall design aims are easily forgotten or subordinated to more local and
immediate goals.  It is a recipe for failure not to have an individual or group
with the explicit task of maintaining the integrity of the design.  It is a
recipe for failure not to enable such an individual or group to have an effect
on the project as a whole.
     Lack of a consistent long-term aim is much more damaging to a project and
an organization than the lack of any individual feature.  It should be the job
of some small number of individuals to formulate such an overall aim, to keep
that aim in mind, to write the key overall design documents, to write the
introductions to the key concepts, and generally to help others to keep the
overall aim in mind."
                            ---- Bjarne Stroustrup
      

    Submitted by:   DAVID LAWRENCE NICOL <DNICOL@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
                    Mar. 2, 1994
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