From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bradd W. Szonye Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/23 Message-ID: <01bb30e3.6917d6a0$38c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 151256044 references: <4kets3$ic0@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <829194658snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <01bb2dcf.e0201620$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Tue Apr 23 2:08:29 AM CDT 1996 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-23T02:08:29-05:00 List-Id: On Friday, April 19, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote... > iBradd said > > "Pardon me if this sounds silly, but... > You shouldn't have to rely on the documentation to make up for a lack of > common sense. > > Bradd." > > The idea that common sense can replace specifications is truly ludicrous. > So ludicrous in fact that this must be a late April fool;s joke, no one > could seriously write the above :-) Ha! I now envision rooms full of programmers, each provided with up-to-the-minute paper and on-line versions of every applicable standard but with their common sense nerve centers surgically removed. Wait! That sounds like some programmers I know... -- Bradd W. Szonye (bradds@ix.netcom.com), Doubleplus Corporation "To chill or to pop a cap in my dome, whoomp, there it is." -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark