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Defect criteria

Posted Mar 6, 2006 23:01 UTC (Mon) by petegn (guest, #847)
In reply to: Defect criteria by corbet
Parent article: Coverity releases first defect survey results

Thas all very well apart from the fact that evry single piece of code can be written in several ways and still achieve the same result .

So that said is it a fault or just another way they had not dreamt up of doing things ..

PS i amnot a programmer but have been around computers long enough to know that there is a lot more than one way of skining a billy goat (Gates)

Pete .


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Posted Mar 7, 2006 7:31 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Yeah, just being "around computers" helps a lot to understand programming. Well, now that I think about it, my boss has been around computers for all of his working career and he knows nil about programming (for him "refactoring" is a four letter word). And my boss's boss, too. And my family. And some of my friends too!

Well, now that I think about it: just being "around computers" does not help when it comes to programming. Please download some -dev packages and start hacking -- it's never too late -- before engaging in meaningful discussions about code. Even some Bash scripting will help a lot to understand how to program.

Sorry for feeding the troll, folks, but it's the first message I read from petegn that does not contain obscenities so I felt compelled to answer.

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Posted Mar 8, 2006 0:50 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

But it *does* have more stupid gratuitous Microsoft-bashing. (This example makes even less sense than usual.)

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