On 2005-07-09, Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/kwalitee.html says:
>
> What is kwalitee?
>
> Kwalitee is inexact quality. We don't know exactly what it is,
> but we know it when we see it.
>
> Isn't that backwards? I thought 'kwalitee' was supposed to be a metric
> that was exact, and that (hopefully) had some correlation with
> 'quality'. The whole point is that 'kwalitee' is objectively
> measurable, while 'quality' isn't.
I agree it could be improved. Here's a suggested refactoring:
Kwalitee are precise metrics which strive to approximate quality. The
name is intentionally different to convey that Kwalitee is related to
"quality", but not quite the real thing. That's because we don't know
exactly what quality is, but we know it when we see it.
Mark
