On Mar 3, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> And significant indentation! > > really, no one beat me to that? > > ;-) > > There was a nice Blog post about this from a Google Chrome developer -- less > critical than I'd think, who pointed out that it's really hard to write unit > tests for this sort of thing, due to the need for a LOT of scaffolding -- but > why integration tests didn't find it is beyond me.... > > Also -- code review anyone? > > (not that my code is well reviewed or thoroughly tested -- but I'm not > writting security code used my millions of people...) > > The other oddity is that Apple is saying that they don't know when or how > this got into the code -- do they REALY not have a decent version control > system???? Or maybe they are being nice to whoever did make this mistake... > > -Chris Apple has been known to contract out and/or buy some of its software from third parties. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to discover that this was part of such a package. It represents such a common and fundamental library that it might well be the sort of thing they found it cheaper to buy. Of course, that begs a follow-on question or two - who else might be using it, and was the cost savings worth the loss of reputation? Bill _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
