On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:20:02PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Matthew Danish wrote: > > If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were > > made before. > > Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti > code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written > accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble sorts and worse. None > of these experiences were permenantly damaging and I always learned > something.
Glad to hear it. But judging from the sheer number of buffer overflow exploits there are these days, it seems that many programmers do not learn. -- ; Matthew Danish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; OpenPGP public key: C24B6010 on keyring.debian.org ; Signed or encrypted mail welcome. ; "There is no dark side of the moon really; matter of fact, it's all dark." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
