From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Arnaud Spiwack <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unsoundness is essential
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:54:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191531254.7078.117.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47052E37.8010201@lix.polytechnique.fr>
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:17 +0200, Arnaud Spiwack wrote:
>
> That would be wonderful if they did work... Unfortunately to my
> knowledge, a software is a mere collection of bugs, glued together with
> a couple of features. Or perhaps I'm being a little optimistic here :p .
Lol! The one I hear is that a program is defined to be the tracks
left by thousands of bugs.
In the case of Ocaml, we might say that when many messages
of the form: "This expression has type SquarePeg but is here
used with type RoundHole" have been fixed by sandpapering
off the edges of those pegs .. the program is the residual sawdust
that remains on the floor after thousands of curses.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 8:35 Locally-polymorphic exceptions [was: folding over a file] oleg
2007-10-03 11:27 ` kirillkh
2007-10-03 11:48 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-10-03 12:19 ` kirillkh
2007-10-03 12:32 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-10-03 14:34 ` kirillkh
2007-10-03 20:39 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-03 22:50 ` Unsoundness is essential skaller
2007-10-03 23:13 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Carette
2007-10-04 1:24 ` skaller
2007-10-04 11:26 ` David Allsopp
2007-10-04 12:45 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-10-04 15:07 ` skaller
2007-10-03 23:13 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-04 1:49 ` skaller
2007-10-03 23:28 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2007-10-04 1:52 ` skaller
2007-10-04 2:35 ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-04 7:46 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-04 8:56 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-04 14:49 ` skaller
2007-10-04 15:00 ` Harrison, John R
2007-10-04 15:29 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-04 16:25 ` skaller
2007-10-04 18:17 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-04 20:54 ` skaller [this message]
2007-10-04 22:24 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-04 16:37 ` skaller
2007-10-04 18:59 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-04 15:04 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-04 15:57 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-04 16:03 ` skaller
2007-10-04 20:02 ` Ken Rose
2007-10-04 21:00 ` skaller
2007-10-04 15:31 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-10-04 17:56 ` rossberg
2007-10-04 19:56 ` skaller
2007-10-04 21:07 ` rossberg
2007-10-04 22:23 ` skaller
2007-10-05 2:48 ` Bárður Árantsson
2007-10-04 2:16 ` Locally-polymorphic exceptions [was: folding over a file] oleg
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