From: "." <quixoticsycophant@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T11:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Drake: Distributed Rake

On Sep 10, 2:06 pm, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While one might consider this Rakefile "bad design" because it
> doesn't fit the original formal notion, it nonetheless does what one
> would expect it to do. I think I'd rather have that, than the
> potential for ambiguous behavior.

Underspecified dependencies + parallel execution == ambiguous behavior

> There's no such thing as luck in computer programming.

Yes, there is.