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: "P.S> Norby" Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <385652B3.4FF9B7A9@collins.rockwell.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 562663196 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> <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net> <82r7ao$293$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Rockwell International Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>, > Richard D Riehle wrote: > > >Personally I think Juliet had it right, and to paraphrase > > > > > >"a bug by any other name would stink as bad" > > > > Again with the poetry. :-) I love poetry, as you know, Robert. > > I have been trying, as I compose this, to think of a counter-quote > > from Shakespeare -- there must be one -- but it does not come to > > Just make something up. It couldn't be much looser of a parahprase than > Robert's. :-) > > How about: > > Alas, poor bug! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow > of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath > borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how > abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at > it. > "Out! Damned bug!" \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// P.S. Norby "Software engineers are, in many ways, similar to normal people" -- Scott Adams "No excuses. No embarrassment. No apologies... Ada -- the most trusted and powerful programming language on earth, or in space." -- S. Tucker Taft