From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 9:35:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C1414C47 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-14-155.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.14.155]) by mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA19925; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:35:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA19693; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:37:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:37:14 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Brett Glass Cc: Jamie Bowden , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. (fwd) Message-ID: <19990513113714.B19394@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost> <19990513112210.A19394@holly.dyndns.org> <4.2.0.37.19990513102444.04697e40@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990513102444.04697e40@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:27:53AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 13, 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > for example. In fact, I'll go farther and say that strings and > arrays terminated by sentinels should be removed from computer > languages. Also, integers should be only 4 bits, and bytes should only be 2 bits long. > > If they did enough testing (I believe buffer > >overflow, formatting "bugs", etc), the problem would be much > >smaller. > > Quality must be built in, not tested in. Everybody makes mistakes at one time another, but I generally agree with you there. > > --Brett Glass -- Chris Costello System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message