From: Jeffrey L Straszheim <stimuli@shadow.net>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/11
Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38530483.D3DBEC22@shadow.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> You cannot change the language to be the way you want it to be.
> Sure, like Humpty-Dumpty in Alice, you can make words mean
> whatever you like, but if you want to be understood, you need
> to use words in a standard manner. The word "bug" has a securely
> established meaning (which incidentally is well described in
> the OED). We are not about to change the meaning radically
> because one person thinks it would be good to do so.
It is likely that none of us will succeed in changing the way
folks talk about things; however, I shall still insist on calling
the defects in my programs exactly that: "defects". I shall also
call those in other software the same. I wish the consumer
would insist on a similar strategy, and refuse to accept the
watered-down term "bug" from the market drones who pawn bad
software on us. They're defects; and the consumer shouldn't
accept any other description.
-- Jeffrey Straszheim
-- Systems Engineer, Programmer
-- http://www.shadow.net/~stimuli
-- stimuli AT shadow DOT net
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim [this message]
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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