On Feb 10, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > > El Reg's title for the page (which no way fits on a tab) is: > <title>This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs • > The Register </title> > Misleading since it appears not to be "copy'n'paste" but conditional > compilation/execution.
Looks to me like the real issue was probably a decree along the lines of “all command line programs must output usage information when invoked with --help or --version.” Which is actually a perfectly reasonable policy, except it should have been followed by a conversation like: “That doesn’t apply to ‘true’, though, right?” “Of course not, use some common sense.” -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
