From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/02/25
Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b49m5$eet$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b3glh$ml6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7b3glh$ml6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> A mantra that should be central to every programmer's
> view of the universe is:
>
> "just because it works does not mean it is right"
>
> A lot of programmers violate this because they don't know
> enough to avoid violations.
I hope you try to ingrain this in your students, because I run into a
depressing number of programmers who hold the opposite view. One gentleman in
particular was of the view that putting any extra effort into quality above
what is required to get the program to operate is tantamount to theft on the
programmers part.
Luckily, such folk tend to *hate* Ada, so I don't have to work with too many
of them. :-)
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-21 0:00 Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable? Steve Doiel
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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