Re: OT naming customs

Quoting Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>:

> > Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be
> > a violent psychopath who knows where you live.--Martin Goldin
>
> Charming.  That's a paraphrase of something I often quote, though I
> don't know the source: "Write your constitution as if your worst enemy
> is in power."
You can go too far the other way, though. Texas (and most of the
Southern states) actually tried that. Governor Davis's administration,
installed by Northern military occupiers, is still famed for the
levels of corruption and incompetence. Because of this, the State
constitutional convention of 1876 created a "plural executive",
where not only the State lieutenant governor, but also all the
members of the cabinet were popularly elected.  It is widely
considered a model of How Not to Get Things Done.  (Which is fine,
if that's what you want, but...)

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier>

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