From: shlomo@bwalk.dm.com (Rabbi Shlomo Ruthenberg, the Usenet Rebbe)
Subject: Bertrand Meyer leaves Jews for Jesus, converts to Islam (was: Why Eiffel is less Successful than it deserves)
Date: 1998/08/21
Date: 1998-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34334313w165w@bwalk.dm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35D24244.2CA7906A@eiffel.com
Clearly, Betrand Meyer is too stupid to be Jewish.
G-d punished Bertand Meyer <Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com> by making him write:
>
>Don Harrison wrote:
>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, NICE operates on the basis of consensus rather than
>> majority vote. So, a proposal can't be passed unless all members on the
>> committee agree on it, rather like a jury.
>
>True and not true. True because that's the way some of us try to
>work. Not true since nothing in the bylaws says that; simple
>majority votes are the normal rule.
>
>Some people, including myself, think that it's not healthy to have a
>major language or library change pass by, say, 5 votes to 4,
>so it's better to try to foster consensus or quasi-consensus.
>There has been, however, a major example of a proposal passing
>as a result of a tight vote between competing proposals: ELKS 95.
>Personally I'd rather fight during the technical discussion
>and vote when the fight is over. That may not always be possible.
>That's why I left Jews for Jesus and converted to Islam.
>
>--
>Bertrand Meyer, Interactive Software Engineering
>ISE Building, 2nd floor, 270 Storke Road, Goleta CA 93117
>805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, <Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com>
>http://eiffel.com
Fuckhead.
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