Yes, we all did. I think it was Matthew who pushed to the point where we would think of saying such things by his release-early-respond-quickly philosophy of software building.
(It would be nice to figure out a way to build on Dijkstra's quote to do this.) Robby On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Yes. I started using the phrase "I have bug reports, therefore I exist" at > Rice. I think Jay should add this phrase right next to the other quote. > > > > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> Guys: we need one more thing to go into the beginning of these >> guidelines. Specifically, we should say (something like) "Bugs are >> something to be proud of; not to be ashamed of." the rationale being >> that there are always bugs, but if they are unknown bugs then it means >> your software is not being used. >> >> It is the way we choose to fight our bugs that determines our >> character, not their presence or absence. >> >> Robby > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev