Re: "Never change a running system"

Helmut Richter wrote:
> In article <43315314.3091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > What does it mean? Is it anything like "don't change horses in the
> > middle of the stream"?
>
> That the sentence is unintelligible to a native English speaker is an
> additional indication that it was coined by a non-English speaker.
>
> It means, in other words, "never modify a system that has worked up to now".

It's perfectly intelligible to me. It means more than Helmut's version:
it means that if the system is currently performing its function,
changing it will slow things down and cause a backlog of work. In other
words, if you're going to change a system you should stop it first and
change it while it's not running. It may desperately need change, but
this change should not be effected while it's running (ie. it's
performing its function, _es läuft schon_).

Samuel

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