On 21 January 2015 at 01:28, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Pages are created by people who don't really understand the code they > are modifying, nor the semantics of the language it is written in. They > simply keep fiddling with it until it no longer seems to be broken, and > then ship it. I used to have more mixed feelings about this until I > realized that it is *precisely* how I use LaTeX. > On a tangent, but I find this analogy questionable. LaTeX programs are normally supposed to have exactly one possible, fixed output, so you can trivially do "exhaustive testing". (Unless you are writing a package, but then you're hopefully beyond fiddling.) Not so with dynamic web pages. /Andreas
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