Mensanator wrote: > While we're on the subject of English, the word "worthless" > means "has no value". So, a program that doesn't work would > generally be "worthless". One that not only doesn't work but > creates side effects that cause other programs to not work > (which don't have bugs) would be "worse than worthless".
All programs have bugs, which means that in some circumstances, they won't work. Therefore, by your reasoning, all programs are worse than useless. > I'm not hard to please at all. No, of course not, since logically you must think all software is useless. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Life is a zoo in a jungle. -- Peter de Vries -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
