On 09/08/07, Keith Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > > > While I understand your viewpoint, I think there has to be a better > > compromise than letting developers "get away with murder" > > We aren't their nannies or parents. No one thanks us for slapping > them on the wrists. We've tried it many times, in many ways. It's > not a technical issue, no amount of cleverness about how to slap them > on the wrists solves the innate problems. > > 1) You slap the wrong person. The script author is typically not the > person getting the warning, or error. The poor victim just wanted to > run the software. Lesson for the victim, don't use the platform that > doesn't work. > > 2) Even if it's the right person, it's typically the wrong time. They > wanted help writing correct code when they were authoring, not when > they are deploying. > > etc.
Yes, but throwing up our hands and saying "oh well, people will always do things they shouldn't too bad" sounds rather defeatist. I simply can't accept that the solution to something we know is wrong, is to perpetuate that wrong. Notice I never said you had to penalise the user. However, perpetuating something that is wrong is only going to make things worse. So, when will someone have the courage to stand up and do something about it? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
