Re: Bertrand Meyer challenges some open-source assumptions

From: Ian Soboroff (ian@cs.umbc.edu)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 13:19:43 EST


"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> Ian Soboroff <ian@cs.umbc.edu>:
> > [Bertrand Meyer's] bondage-and-discipline ethics to go with a b&d language.
>
> Heh. Putting it that way is funnier than you know -- because the term
> "bondage-and-discipline language" was originated by one of the targets
> of Meyer's vitriol.
>
> (It was me. But it could just as easily have been RMS; he loves the term.)

that i didn't know... hah! mind if i ask the context?

of course, i have two misgivings about the line... (1) there are a
couple things i actually like about Eiffel, and (2) i'm jewish... we
invented b&d ethics ;-)

ian

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Ian Soboroff                                       ian@cs.umbc.edu
University of MD Baltimore County      http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian

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