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=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HEADER_SPAM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108437,bfbdc6aaa236c173,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108437,public X-Google-Thread: 10ce2c,bfbdc6aaa236c173,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ce2c,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bfbdc6aaa236c173,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,bfbdc6aaa236c173,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 110c55,bfbdc6aaa236c173,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110c55,public 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 Message-ID: <34334313w165w@bwalk.dm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 383503972 References: <35d0d319.34683812@netnews.msn.com> <35D24244.2CA7906A@eiffel.com> Organization: Young Israel of Usenet Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.israel,alt.fan.karl-malden.nose,alt.bigfoot Date: 1998-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Clearly, Betrand Meyer is too stupid to be Jewish. G-d punished Bertand Meyer 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, >http://eiffel.com Fuckhead.