From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Richard D Riehle Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/10 Message-ID: <82rp84$a4g$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559133472 References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net> <82r7ao$293$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises X-Server-Date: 10 Dec 1999 20:53:24 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-10T20:53:24+00:00 List-Id: In article <82r7ao$293$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison wrote: >In article <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>, > Richard D Riehle wrote: >> 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). Those of us who are entertained by this thread have now expressed our viewpoints. Those who are annoyed by it are becoming more annoyed. It is probably time to terminate it. I originally intended only to share the fact that I had responded to the Business Week article with something postive about Ada. It turned into a Donneybrook that I did not expect, but should have anticpated. Now let's see if any thing positive can come of it within the glossy pages of BW. No more on bugs versus mistakes, OK? Richard Riehle