In <[email protected]>, on 08/28/2013
at 03:33 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> said:
>The best principle is the principle of "least astonishment" - it is
>best to not dictate from on high.
That requires a knowledge of the local culture. For COBOL an exception
might be surprising, but for PL/I signals and conditions are expected.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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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