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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/08
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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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