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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: Software Liability
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 12:40:24 -0500
Date: 2002-07-06T12:40:24-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B37B1A6F826445AE.AC6669F49DB1F918.4AA317E3FA0AD98E@lp.airnews.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D25C26F.5BB9E9AE@despammed.com

One would hope that you had a friendly talk with him at the code review.

"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:3D25C26F.5BB9E9AE@despammed.com...
>
>
> > has subroutines. If you want to do something three times, you only write
it
> > once. The difference in complexity between a 25-storey office building
and a
>
> Depends on who you are.  I remember once
> shaking my head in disbelief while examining
> a _single_ Ada file that contained three _different_
> algorithms for removing leading and trailing blanks
> from a string.
>
> When the person who wrote it said to someone else
> across the room, "Ada is an abomination" it was very
> difficult to not turn around and say, "It certainly
> is when you write it!"
>
> --
> Wes Groleau
> http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau





  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-06 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-29  3:32 Software Liability Robert C. Leif
2002-07-02 12:53 ` W D Tate
2002-07-02 19:12   ` Robert C. Leif
2002-07-02 19:31     ` Marin David Condic
2002-07-03 15:53       ` Darren New
2002-07-05 15:59         ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-06 17:40           ` John R. Strohm [this message]
2002-07-07 19:34           ` Marc A. Criley
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