From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/16
Date: 1999-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3767BBD0.BCF77FE2@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com
D'Arcy Smith wrote:
>
> If your sent into a room that is full of pins sticking up from the
> floow - and you are tole that it is full of pins - and you run into
> the room with your eyes closed then it is 100% your fault.
>
> Could the language be defined differently to point out overflow
> erorrs? Sure.
>
> Ignorance of the language spec is not an excuse. Ignoring the
> language spec is idiocy.
>
At the risk of repeating myself... (what the heck? I like the sound of
my own voice! :-)
The assigning of 100% of the fault to me for ignoring the warning may be
an interesting point in assessing damages in a court of law. However, my
feet are still going to be bleeding rather badly and the whole
experience will have emotionally warped me for life. Assigning blame is
*not* going to make that go away. Hence my point is that issuing RTFM
warnings and calling the non-reader of the manual incompetent is an
exercise in futility. If a thing is dangerous and likely to cause
trouble because of ingenious idiots and the terminally incompetent, then
there should be designed into the process ways of preventing idiots from
cutting themselves with sharp objects or burning themselves with hot
coffee. You can't eliminate the idiots, but you can eliminate (or at
least mitigate) the opportunities they have to shoot themselves in the
foot.
MDC
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United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines
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1999-06-12 0:00 Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem nabbasi
1999-06-12 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-06-12 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-12 0:00 ` kirck
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Fred
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Mark Hood
1999-06-15 0:00 ` mike
1999-06-15 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-15 0:00 ` rich
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-15 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-16 0:00 ` bill
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-18 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Chris Dollin
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` kirk
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-17 0:00 ` bob
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-18 0:00 ` mike
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-19 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-19 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-20 0:00 ` Sera Hirasuna
1999-06-19 0:00 ` Kio
1999-06-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` john
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-17 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-17 0:00 ` bob
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-15 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Mark Hood
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-15 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-16 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-12 0:00 ` PPAATT
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-14 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-30 0:00 ` John Merryweather Cooper
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02 0:00 ` John Merryweather Cooper
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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