On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > ... It is now necessary to be a rocket scientist before even > considering using the GNU C++ compiler :-(
Rocket scientists are notoriously bad programmers so I don't think that this is some to aspire to. They crashed a Mars polar-lander because they couldn't get the units-conversion code right. An early Mariner probe completely missed the planet because someone used a ":" instead of ";" which changed the assembly language instruction from direct to indirect addressing; or something like that. I think that the phrase "well, it's not rocket-science" should be replaced with "well, it's not M theory". To the question, "What's M theory?" an appropriate response is "Exactly !". Kel _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
