Notices by David K. Trudgett (datalinkdroid@mastodon.sdf.org)

@screwtape Ah. Okay. It's certainly on the nose, that. This sort of thing that is happening to Linux is why I have had a lot more interest in the *BSD (mainly OpenBSD) creatures of late.

@screwtape You are being too subtle for me, as I don't know what you mean :-)

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@pkw @rat

Well I don't know what you did and didn't do, so you are safe from my judgement lol. :-) I do know that CL is a pretty cool language, though. Better than most, and I use it myself, but it does have some weaknesses, like all of them. I am always torn between CL, Perl and Ada, all of which do /something/ far better than anything else I'm familiar with.

There are Emacs user groups who meet in person, but there has never been a Microsoft Word user group in the entire history of the universe. There is a reason for this.

#Emacs #MicrosoftWord

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@rat @screwtape Like "Design Patterns", TDD is a bad smell that normally indicates a shortcoming of the development language in use. For instance, the pre- and post-conditions of subprograms need to be expressed in the language itself, and not bolted on externally to the program. Types need to be defined such that you cannot assign a temperature to an altitude, and so on. With these kinds of capabilities, many tests do not need to be written: the faults cannot happen.