On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 19, 10:42 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > On Oct 19, 4:47 am, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I've just put up MPIR 1.3 release candidate 1. We are still waiting on 
>> >> some
>> >> final testing from Jeff Gilchrist, which will probably happen tomorrow. If
>> >> everything is fine, the release candidate will become the final release.
>>
>> > Wait a sec.... you are actually releasing my dc_divappr_q_n code, as
>> > is, in a production release??!!
>>
>> > Despite our earlier conversation?
>>
>> > It's marked "trial implementation" and "proof-of-concept", and even
>> > contains comments like
>>
>> > /* FIXME: hmmmm my test suite doesn't seem to generate this case,
>> >       is it actually possible at all? */
>>
>> For fun, I tried to find your code by searching for FIXME and got:
>>
>> wst...@sage:~/tmp/mpir-1.3.0$ grep -r FIXME *|wc -l
>> 365
>>
>> So there is something to fix every day next year...
>
> William, it's difficult for me to take this comment seriously.

Given that it is meant as a joke (which I hoped would be clear), I
hope you will not take it seriously.

> You take a remarkably cavalier attitude towards the correctness of
> MPIR, considering how much the validity of your research results
> depends on it.

I personally find that a good sense of humor helps both software
development and research.   Anyway, this is off topic, so my apology
for posting off topic.

 -- William

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