From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: if statements
Date: 2000/11/10
Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NUNyLpyLM8FA@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ufde1$ogf$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <8ufde1$ogf$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <3A0ABE18.24CACAFB@acm.org>,
> Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> wrote:
>> I'd agree with the "Necessary/Not-Sufficient" part of this
>> statement, but to say that "It Works" is not the MOST
>> important thing, I think is a mistake.
>
> Your pickup truck example is actually instructive, but you
> Sure, the software must work reasonably well, but to focus on
> correct function to the exclusion of maintainability will result
> in software that does not necessarily work any better on initial
> delivery, and for SURE will start to work worse as it is
> maintained.
Don't worry, Robert. Marin will no longer take an absolutist
position regarding maintainability being of secondary interest
once he finds that he has to remove the engine from the truck
to refill the fuel tank :-)
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2000-11-03 14:42 if statements sc297
2000-11-03 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-11-03 16:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Orpin
2000-11-03 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-11-05 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-11-06 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-11-08 0:14 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-11-09 3:50 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-08 5:22 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Daniel Allex
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Daniel Allex
2000-11-09 3:54 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-09 5:24 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-09 0:00 ` constants v variables (was Re: if statements) Martin Dowie
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-10 2:13 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-10 5:59 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-09 0:00 ` if statements Marin David Condic
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-11-10 1:58 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-10 3:53 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-10 0:12 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-11-10 2:09 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-22 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Ada student homework ? Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-14 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-10 2:15 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-18 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-20 0:00 ` John English
[not found] ` <3A2827A9.B54C260@ebox.tninet.se>
[not found] ` <1dtW5.25958$6W1.1458704@news.flash.net>
2000-12-12 20:52 ` Stefan Skoglund
[not found] ` <dKo%5.144$PE5.16970@read2.inet.fi>
2000-12-19 16:36 ` election chit-chat (was Re: Ada student homework ?) Robert Dewar
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Ada student homework ? Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-10 0:08 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-12 6:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-13 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Ada student homework ?[OS/2 Comments] tjerick
2000-11-14 0:00 ` Ada student homework ? Georg Bauhaus
2000-11-14 5:16 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-14 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-14 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-11-14 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-11-14 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Ada student homework ? I give up Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Ada student homework ? Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-11-13 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-11-14 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <3A0FCBAD.824095C6@cadwin.cOrganization: LJK Software <5E93Ivxu6GwO@eisner.decus.org>
2000-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-13 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-11-10 0:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-18 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-19 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:16 ` tmoran
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Portability accross compilers Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 3:18 ` Ada student homework ? Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 5:55 ` tmoran
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-13 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-11-10 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-09 5:11 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-18 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-11-09 5:04 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-10 0:27 ` Subsetting Ada Ted Dennison
2000-11-07 0:00 ` if statements dmitry6243
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-08 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-08 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-09 3:43 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-08 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-11-09 4:58 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-09 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-09 0:00 ` Designing test suites (was: if statements) Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-08 5:29 ` if statements Ken Garlington
2000-11-08 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-07 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-10 6:09 ` DJack143
2000-11-11 0:00 ` Here we go again (Was: if statements) Frank Christiny
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2000-11-09 0:00 if statements James Hassett
2000-11-10 0:02 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-14 0:00 Duncan Sands
2000-11-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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