On Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 9:04:23 am G Karunakar wrote: > Though there are other meanings of 'default' , the context here is > that of a value for some entity that has been decided to be used in > case none is set,or no changes made to it in course of usage. True. Software failure was often traced to faults where values for configurable parameters was missing (overlooked?). As the number of configurable parameters exploded and the cost of failure increased, programmers had to assume sensible fallback values when a parameter was not set. These became de-fault values.
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