In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/13/2007
at 11:27 AM, Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>This really rubs me the wrong way, not because it isn't true,
Of course it's true, it's just not a valid excuse for refusing to work on
a problem when it isn't possible to provide a test case. The quote doesn't
claim that it's impossible to solve a problem without a test case, just
that it's easier with one.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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