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: f891f,9d58048b8113c00f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,9d58048b8113c00f X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10cc59,9d58048b8113c00f X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc59,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e71cf22768a124d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (++ robin) Subject: Re: next "big" language?? (disagree) Date: 1996/06/11 Message-ID: <4pj711$enp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159599478 references: <4p3nqb$k4a@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <4p3nto$k4a@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc nntp-posting-user: rav Date: 1996-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) writes: >On 5/6/95, in reply to Peter Hermann, who said > ">When I decide, as a programmer, that a peculiar type or > >variable may have a value in the range from 1 to 9, can you please > >explain me why it should be useful to assign a value of 10 or > >4711 or -1234?" >Robin, from Australia raplied. >"---Why, someone inevitably decides that the range is going >to be something different! Users are apt to change their minds. >Then someone has to go in and modify the program. Or, someone >overlooked a limit, and put in a limit one smaller than that >actually required. Again, someone has to go in and find where >that limit is, and change it." > Ian, from the UK "raplied" [sic]: >I was just thinking that the other day. All the world software >engineering problems solved. No more boundaries to any variable, >and as I had 31 pounds and 312,032.231234 pence in my bank >account I could celebrate this solution to the software >crisis with a ride on a brand new -234 cc. Kawasaki Zx6R. >Ian Ward's opinions only : ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be Reminds me of a joke I once heard: A man went into a certain pub, hoping to pull a swiftie on the barman. He asked: "Oi, have you change of an 18 pound note?" The barman replied: "Aye. What would you like? 2 nines or 3 sixes?" Seems to me that Ian has missed the point.