Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joe Pfeiffer Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle/Google demonstrate human beings cannot write 10 lines of code without making a mistake ;) Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:46:28 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1behqep563.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> References: <29308868.1994.1337265697084.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcuc6> <4fb96c52$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="NnXbdxIqRkHvKjwxV7w/mA"; logging-data="29564"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/1aZUkM9Xv8V7sOjkKv3w8JIApwZ6V2AM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RK2DmC+9FGk2l5LRxvv7jcl/VJk= sha1:H106/a+jkvFzDh161pw59hlw32Y= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:21105 comp.lang.java.programmer:14709 Lew writes: > Keith Thompson wrote: >> Arne Vajhøj writes: >>> Skybuck Flying wrote: >>>> This code is a nice example oh how not to program. >>>> >>>> Apperently only a skilled coder/debugger like me seems to be able to >>>> spot the fallacies in this way too debug-complex code. >>> >>> You mean that only a complete clueless coder/debugger >>> would claim some code contains a bug without reading >>> the documentation for how it should work. >> >> Arne, years of experience have shown that arguing with "Skybuck Flying" >> is a waste of time. Feel free to waste your time, but please don't >> waste ours. > > How is he to know what wastes your time? That's a judgment only you can make. > > He is free to post any response to any poster he chooses. If you don't > wish to "waste" your time, you don't have to read his responses to > that poster. Any decent newsreader will organize your view into > conversations so that you will know which of Arne's posts are likely > to, in your own, personal, private judgment, waste your time. It is > not Arne's job to judge posts on your behalf, nor your right to > curtail his right to respond. Sadly, it seems every new person who encounters Skybuck feels the need to respond to him for a while before finally learning his lesson. And for reasons that escape me, trying to clue somebody in on what they can expect is taken as being a Net Cop.