Qualitative statements---'BASR is marginally better than BALR' and the like---are not useless; but measurements are better, in exactly the sense that 'candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker'.
IBM's ostrich-like failure to provide them does not mean that such measurements are not taken and used. It means only that many different more and less inadequate sets of them, varying among themselves, are taken and used. One standard set, or some small integer number of sets, of them should but probably will not be supplied by IBM. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
