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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Is the Documentation In a spec File Usually Enough For You ?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:07:16 +0200
Date: 2018-10-18T22:07:16+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pqap5k$t6a$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80e23f09-06ac-4112-9b7f-e765266a952d@googlegroups.com>

On 10/18/18 7:54 PM, AdaMagica wrote:
> 
> If you do not say that your code produces a good password, how can the user know he will get a good password? He must trust JC because he possibly knows him personally or because he uses other well defined and well written sw from him.
> 
> But I claim: In SW, there must be no such trust. JC may just have been being lazy in this case.

Right. So if I claim the function returns a good password, you won't trust me 
and won't accept my claim until you've tested it. So there's no point in my 
making such a claim.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Well, a gala day is enough for me. I don't think
I can handle any more."
Duck Soup
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-18 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15  0:42 Is the Documentation In a spec File Usually Enough For You ? patrick
2018-10-15  5:44 ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-15  7:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-15  7:42 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15 10:05 ` AdaMagica
2018-10-15 11:25   ` patrick
2018-10-15 11:57     ` Markus Schöpflin
2018-10-15 13:02       ` patrick
2018-10-15 16:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-16  9:57   ` AdaMagica
2018-10-16 16:57     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-18  9:06       ` AdaMagica
2018-10-18 15:24         ` Brad Moore
2018-10-18 17:29         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-18 17:54           ` AdaMagica
2018-10-18 18:50             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-10-18 20:07             ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2018-10-21 15:20               ` AdaMagica
2018-10-21 18:56                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-22 16:04                   ` AdaMagica
2018-10-22 19:13                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-23 10:00                       ` AdaMagica
2018-10-18 21:24             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-19  7:39               ` J-P. Rosen
2018-10-20  1:27                 ` Randy Brukardt
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