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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:42:54PM +1100, Del wrote:
>
> "Less" is a measure of quality not quantity.
If I have "less" money than you do, the quality of my money
is still exactly the same as yours.
> So by saying there are
> "less bugs" what you are implying is that there are the same number
> of bugs, but the bugs are smaller.
That would be "lesser bugs".
> What you probably want to say is
> "fewer bugs".
This implies that the functional behaviour of a computer program
can be measured in countable, integer units -- an implication
that I for one would hesitate to make. There is a fundamental
problem with the colloquial usage of the word "bugs" because
insects are countable and and computer misbehavior is not.
- Tel
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