From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/09
Date: 1999-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net
In article <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Excellent example of a "bug" as something that enters your
> product from outside. We find the same kind of "bug" in the
> form of cosmic radiation in satellites. This is a correct use
> of "bug." What programmers usually call a "bug" is a defect
> due to some mistake. That "bug" was created by us through
> commission or commission.
You cannot change the language to be the way you want it to be.
Sure, like Humpty-Dumpty in Alice, you can make words mean
whatever you like, but if you want to be understood, you need
to use words in a standard manner. The word "bug" has a securely
established meaning (which incidentally is well described in
the OED). We are not about to change the meaning radically
because one person thinks it would be good to do so.
Personally I think Juliet had it right, and to paraphrase
"a bug by any other name would stink as bad"
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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 ` Robert Dewar
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 [this message]
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 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
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
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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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