Mad Penguin review

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:59 +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote:

> PS: actually I never understood those silly "codenames" which are 
> usually neither code nor names, starting with Chicago. :)
> (no need to tell they make dev chat more terse)
> 
Codenames are used to refer to software while in development, when the
final version number (especially when using dates) is not known.

It'd look very silly referring to something as "Windows 2004" during
development and then missing it by miles, so they use "Longhorn" and
don't assign other names until later in the cycle.

This is still true in our world, just the exposure to the codenames
tends to be greater because more people follow the development cycles
rather than the stable cycles.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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