From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/08
Date: 1999-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82lv4i$aso$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net
In article <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I have sent the following letter to the editor at Business Week.
>
> -- =================================================================
>
> Software development is the only engineering wannabee that euphemizes
> its mistakes with the cutsey monicker, "bug." The IEEE has suggested
> a three level designation starting with "mistake/error", that produces
> a software
As a reader, you loose me right here. This kind of lingusitc revisionism
has throughout history been the exclusive domain of shrills and
crackpots. There is ample proof that changing the word used to describe
something has absolutely no impact on the meaning people give the
concept. To make matters worse, the "improved" term is invariably longer
and more mushy-mouthed.
--
T.E.D.
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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 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
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
1999-12-08 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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
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
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
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