Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) 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: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4fb96c52$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell.xmission.com X-Trace: news.xmission.com 1337588749 6210 166.70.8.4 (21 May 2012 08:25:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:25:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:21115 comp.lang.java.programmer:14718 In article , Lew wrote: >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. Well said, sir! Pretty much Usenet 101 stuff, but you are to be commended for speaking truth to power. -- First of all, I do not appreciate your playing stupid here at all. - Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn -