Re: is it Really Profane ? if the end user never C's it ?

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:10:44 -0500 (CDT)


Buy that man a copy of the 1ST Amendment....WOO HOO......

If any of you every saw the stuff in the raw chipset delveopment, you
would know that I am the son of a Sailor...........

Most have never seen the previews of a chipset code that rips a drive
apart........

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Robert W. Fowler wrote:

> This is my first post to this list ......
> i believe that source code is just that, the SOURCE
>
> /*Top ten on Profanity*/
>
> 1) Code at the Source Level would not be seen by the average end user.
>
> 2) Compiled Code should not have a fraction of a chance to trigger
> Profanity for the end user.
>
> 3) MOST (non-developers) Rarely [ if ever ] read the Kernel/module
> Source Code.
>
> 4) Quality and RELIABILITY should mean more than a few widely used 4
> letter words.
>
> 5) How many Windoze xx users have openly and plainly said "Oh Fuck"
> when all their personal.
> Files and app.'s just shit the bed ??? <---- common occurrence.
>
> 6) Developers should be allowed the freedom to develop and express
> their feeling and/or frustrations.
>
> 7) The corporate world really doesn't even know what a kernel is, let
> alone why it would contain expletives.
>
> 8) I can think of at least 10 Profane words that i have used to
> describe the reliability of NT.
>
> 9) Some how words like "oh that just Stinks" or "that makes me mad"
> just doesn't quite express my feeling
> when my new kernel module ive been developing, just rendered my Box
> useless ......
>
> 10) Finally, Some of the best Software Geniuses are more concerned
> with the task at hand not Political Correctness.
>
> Robert W. Fowler III
> Senior Network Engineer
> Net Technlogies, Inc.
> RFowler@ntisys.com
>
>
>
>
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Andre Hedrick
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