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: 103376,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeffrey L Straszheim Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: <38530483.D3DBEC22@shadow.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559561563 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: I've tried organization, but it just didn't work for me. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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