Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics"

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 05:28:16 EST


On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't
> expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not
> good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases
> that one loses sight of the larger issues.

The problem about rare cases is that they don't get proper testing, so
bugs may slip through and go unnoticed for an extended amount of time
without even being documented.
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