Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ottix-news.ottix.net!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"! Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <232acf45-096d-466a-aa75-06d8c378b128@googlegroups.com> <53cc376e$0$2898$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53926733-5e65-482f-96bc-0171c6a93d59@googlegroups.com> <4882fd4d-b772-4ebb-8aaa-0c20be6051b6@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1405961768 29059 64.122.56.22 (21 Jul 2014 16:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:56:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Received-Bytes: 2308 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2043660253 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74933 On 2014-07-21, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 21/07/2014 15:27, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> You call it a bug because you can't think of any way it could be >>> beneficial. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Something isn't a >>> bug because you find it annoying; it's a bug because it fails to >>> implement the programmer's intentions and/or the docs/specification. >> >> I was always taught that it's a "bug" is when a program doesn't do >> what a reasonable user expects -- that it's got nothing to do with the >> programmer's intent. > > As in my entire career I've never come across a "reasonable user" then > by that definition there are no bugs. Well done! -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Hello. Just walk at along and try NOT to think gmail.com about your INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!!