On Mar 3, 11:58 pm, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > While we're on the subject of English, the word "worthless" > > means "has no value". So, a program that doesn't work would > > generally be "worthless". One that not only doesn't work but > > creates side effects that cause other programs to not work > > (which don't have bugs) would be "worse than worthless". > > All programs have bugs, which means that in some circumstances, they > won't work.
And in such circumstances, would be worthless. > Therefore, by your reasoning, all programs are worse than > useless. That doesn't follow from my reasoning. Suppose you downloaded a new calculator program that couldn't add properly. That would be useless to you, right? But suppose the program contained a virus that erased your hard drive. That would be "worse than useless", wouldn't it? > > > I'm not hard to please at all. > > No, of course not, since logically you must think all software is useless. Somehow, I expected better logic from people who call themselves programmers. > > -- > Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &&http://www.alcyone.com/max/ > San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis > Life is a zoo in a jungle. > -- Peter de Vries -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list