- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:22:37 -0400
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Elliotte Harold scripsit: > That's brittle and badly written software. Admittedly there's a lot of > that out there. :-( > > Better software bends rather than breaks. There's some of that out there > too. "Always avoid absolute statements; they invariably lead to bad reasoning." Seriously, there are plenty of applications where it's better to break, loudly and early, rather than bend. Long ago and far away, programmers experimented with error-correcting compilers (see CORC, DWIM), but on the whole we expect compilers to be conservative in what they accept, and rightly so. -- A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want John Cowan to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and a rabbi who lets them do it cowan@ccil.org isn't a man. --Jewish saying
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