Mark,
Thanks!
If only I weren't teaching a GE (General Education = non-majors) course
this term...
I'm still trying to explain the difference between an email address and a
URL...
:-/
Judy
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Mark Wieder wrote:
Sinners-
I've had this filed away for a while and just
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The fourteenth deadly sin is informing the user of a compiler error
your compiler was smart enough to fix without his help
I always _hated_ missing semicolon on line 13. If you know there's
a semicolon missing, why the heck don't you just PUT IT THERE! You're
the
Yeah, I *know* that intellectually, but it always seemed to me that a
sufficiently intelligent compiler could be designed that would be
able to dope that out correctly a huge percentage of the time.
Besides, I like screaming at compilers at 3 a.m.
BTW and FWIW, in the last year or so that I
Hi Mark,
On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sins
Sinners-
I've had this filed away for a while and just rediscovered it...
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/sins.html
What
On Sep 22, 2005, at 12:00, Ken Norris wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, use-revolution-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sins
Sinners-
I've had this filed away for a while and just
: The Deadly Sins
On Sep 22, 2005, at 12:00, Ken Norris wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, use-revolution-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sins
Sinners-
I've had this filed away for a while
Never mind -- I found it -- see below.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sin
I previously wrote:
What about Klingon Coding practices?
Say, where are those anyway? I can't find them :-/ I remember I tipped
over my office chair
: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:00 PM
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: The Deadly Sins
Hi Mark,
On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sins
Sinners-
I've had this filed
Howdy,
On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:29 -0700
From: Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Deadly Sins
Hmmm. Appears to be more than one version of Klingon coding.
Would 'compiling' them both cause an intergalactic incident
]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Norris
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:11 PM
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: The Deadly Sins
Never mind -- I found it -- see below.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sin
I
@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: The Deadly Sins
Never mind -- I found it -- see below.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Deadly Sin
I previously wrote:
What about Klingon Coding practices?
Say, where are those anyway? I can't find them :-/ I
Sinners-
I've had this filed away for a while and just rediscovered it...
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/sins.html
--
-Mark Wieder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mark...
Thanks for sharing. I've seen that but not for a long time.
When I first saw it, I proposed a 14th deadly sin of which virtually
every compiler of that era was guilty:
The fourteenth deadly sin is informing the user of a compiler error
your compiler was smart enough to fix without
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