Re: Quote of the week

2017-04-25 Thread breamoreboy
On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 12:03:09 AM UTC+1, Ben Finney wrote: > > "If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important > > enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman > > Ethan Furman writes: > > > Yes, the smiley was acknowledgement that testing is hard, will never > > be

Re: Quote of the week

2017-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
> "If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important > enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman Ethan Furman writes: > Yes, the smiley was acknowledgement that testing is hard, will never > be perfect, and we only have so much time -- but thorough tests

Re: Quote of the week

2017-04-25 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/25/2017 10:11 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 4/25/2017 6:32 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: "If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman The original had a smily ';)' at the end.

Re: Quote of the week

2017-04-25 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/25/2017 6:32 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: "If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman The original had a smily ';)' at the end. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2017-April/004436.html In the context of

Quote of the week

2017-04-25 Thread Steve D'Aprano
"If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2017-April/004436.html -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.