Re: Contact handles disappearing mysteriously from the whois database!

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

> At 04:44 PM 4/27/99 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > testing can demonstrate the presence of bugs, it can not demonstrate their
> > absence.
> >
> > randy, who spent 20+ years in software development

Dean Robb <pceasy () norfolk infi net> wrote:
> And never learned to test before deployment?  I learned that in high school
> BASIC classes....

Better you'd learn to read.  Try to read the first quoted sentence again.

> Maybe I'm missing something...and I'm NOT a software engineer...

That shows.  Oh, the optimism of the naive.  You must be a manager.

Plonk.

--vadim

PS      Does anyone know why overuse of ellipsis is a sure sign of a luser?

PPS     I've heard somewhere that learning BASIC as the first language
        irrevokably destroys any latent ability to design real software.
        If so, that must explain why ms-dos and its progeny are so messy
        and lossy.