Re: Shut Up With The Open Source Politics, OK?

On 11 Oct 2003 at 1:30, John Andersen wrote:

> On Saturday 11 October 2003 01:14, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> > Yes there is, and the Kernighan & Ritchie version of hello.c is a fine
> > example. The art of proving software correct is taught at universities,
> > but rarely practiced in the industry.
> 
> Ok, Ok, I give.  I revise my pronouncement thus:
> 
> There is no usefull error free software.

Wrong again. What you're trying to say is that there is no 
complicated software that's error free (and I would tend to 
agree), but there is a lot of small pieces of software, that do 
one thing only, but that do it well, that are error free.

And these little titbits can be very useful.

John