Re: Is the Documentation In a spec File Usually Enough For You ?

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 10/22/18 6:04 PM, AdaMagica wrote:
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> There is a library written by me called XYZ, but I do not claim anything about reliability etc. And there are many others out there also doing XYZ. Which one would you chose? I guess the one with the optimal documentation, but definitely not mine; and you will test it, wouldn't you?

I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about your statement that you don't trust 
any S/W, and the logical consequences of that towards claims made by authors 
about their S/W. If an author makes a claim, you won't trust it until you've 
tested it, because you don't trust S/W. If an author makes no claim, that 
shouldn't change anything, because you have the same trust in that S/W that you 
have in S/W with a claim: none until you've tested it. Yet you seem to say that 
between a library that makes a claim of goodness and another with no claim, 
you'd choose the one with the claim, despite having equal lack of trust in both.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there."
Blazing Saddles
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