Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:37:14 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. (fwd) Message-ID: <19990513113714.B19394@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990513102444.04697e40@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:27:53AM -0600 References: <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990513104700.2143C-100000@beelzebubba.sysabe <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost> <19990513112210.A19394@holly.dyndns.org> <4.2.0.37.19990513102444.04697e40@localhost>
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On Thu, May 13, 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > for example. In fact, I'll go farther and say that strings and > arrays terminated by sentinels should be removed from computer > languages. Also, integers should be only 4 bits, and bytes should only be 2 bits long. > > If they did enough testing (I believe buffer > >overflow, formatting "bugs", etc), the problem would be much > >smaller. > > Quality must be built in, not tested in. Everybody makes mistakes at one time another, but I generally agree with you there. > > --Brett Glass -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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