On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 08:23 , Jackson, Harry wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> speaking of which - how DO we improve the quality of the problem >> specs - both amongst beginners and 'product managers' - the former >> at least seem open to learning while the latter..... > > For the former is there an acceptable use policy or a posters guide? the usual usenet convention has been - the more 'sane' the problem spec - the simpler it is to diagnose.... what's the old gag - No question is too stoopid, but some are stoopid enough to not merit an answer.... A part of what I hope we can help folks with is developing the "this did not make sense to me, here is my demo code and I expected <X> and got <Y> ...." and since they of course were using '-w' and 'use strict;' they will have 'perl traditional mainstream errors'..... Did I mention 'USE the -w flag' AND 'use strict;' ??? The more we push that criterion on folks - the more consistent the basic catastrophe's will be.... > For the > latter we all know that its easier to get blood from a stone. shouldn't there be some sort of ANSI/POSIX/IETF standard that should be applied here or something: public class ProductManager extends PointyHair implements VoidIO ; ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
