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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/10
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In article <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>,
  Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I often hear it used to trivialize the presence of the so-called bug.

If so, its a pretty weak attempt. At this point everyone knows what
"bug" means. If you think the term excuses anything, you don't hang out
in the newsgroups populated mostly by non-programmer software users. The
best word to describe their reception of even minorly buggy software is
"brutal".

> Dennison takes me to task for being a "shrill and crackpot."  I hope
> that is not true, but we shrills and crackpots rarely realize it when
> we are correctly identified as such.  My point of view is simply that

I did *not* call you that. I simply said that those are the two types of
people who gravitate to the "we must change the word, and the meaing
will somehow change too" arguments. I definitely don't deem you a
crackpot, and you have about two more threads of this to go before you
achieve full shrill-hood. (A state which I'm sure I have achieved on
certian issues).

> >Personally I think Juliet had it right, and to paraphrase
> >
> >"a bug by any other name would stink as bad"
>
> Again with the poetry. :-)  I love poetry, as you know, Robert.
> I have been trying, as I compose this, to think of a counter-quote
> from Shakespeare -- there must be one -- but it does not come to

Just make something up. It couldn't be much looser of a parahprase than
Robert's. :-)

How about:

Alas, poor bug! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it.

--
T.E.D.


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