From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:25:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502a5f3c-6bd3-4fe8-993c-5351c07e33cd@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiXQDOxRuZDMvzMVqzHbdgykMtWkdSVWNe4EeHEk9oXoxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/20/24 9:06 AM, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I'm surprised by nonchalance about bad inputs evoking bad program behavior.
I think the claim is that it's better to stop immediately with an error
on invalid input rather than guess at the user's intent and try to go on.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-20 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-20 13:06 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 13:14 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-20 14:00 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-20 13:25 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2024-05-20 13:41 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 14:26 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-22 13:44 ` arnold
2024-05-20 13:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 15:39 ` [TUHS] OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.) Åke Nordin
2024-05-20 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 20:02 ` John Levine
2024-05-20 20:11 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 21:00 ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:03 ` John R Levine
2024-05-20 21:14 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 21:46 ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:57 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 16:06 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Paul Winalski
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2024-05-19 23:08 [TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 0:58 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-20 3:19 ` arnold
2024-05-20 9:20 ` [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 11:58 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-20 13:10 ` Chet Ramey
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