On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/04/2012 17:03, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> There is >> little ambiguity left by -Wreally-all-of-them-damn-it :-) > > Actually, no, as anyone could tell you who before they discovered version > control used to have lots of files lying around called "foo.final.c", > "foo.final.reallyfinal.c", "foo.final.updated.reallyfinalthistime.c", and so > on; in other words, I think that after a few years have passed, we would find > that we've been persuaded to add -Wreally-really-all-of-them-damn-it, > -Wreally-really-all-no-actually-all-including-everything, and > -Wreally-really-all-of-them-damn-it-no-i-really-did-mean-all-of-them-even-including-the-really-unexpected-ones.
But we are no longer in the era that forms the basis of your analogy :-) > > There's nothing more ambiguous than saying that something is final in a > world where perfection is never achieved. That's why software has > monotonically increasing version numbers, instead of just one that means "this > is done now". As I observed earlier, Geodelization is great for machines. -- Gaby
