[23894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contact handles disappearing mysteriously from the whois database!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Apr 29 03:10:13 1999
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:08:10 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: pceasy@norfolk.infi.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>At 04:44 PM 4/27/99 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>>
>>testing can demonstrate the presence of bugs, it can not demonstrate their
>>absence.
>>
>>randy, who spent 20+ years in software development
Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net> wrote:
>
>And never learned to test before deployment? I learned that in high school
>BASIC classes....
Better you'd learn to read. Try to read the first quoted sentence again.
>Maybe I'm missing something...and I'm NOT a software engineer...
That shows. Oh, the optimism of the naive. You must be a manager.
Plonk.
--vadim
PS Does anyone know why overuse of ellipsis is a sure sign of a luser?
PPS I've heard somewhere that learning BASIC as the first language
irrevokably destroys any latent ability to design real software.
If so, that must explain why ms-dos and its progeny are so messy
and lossy.
