From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 22/12/2022 9:06 pm, David Brown wrote:   
   > On 22/12/2022 17:30, Julio Di Egidio wrote:   
   >> On Thursday, 22 December 2022 at 16:50:49 UTC+1, David Brown   
   >> wrote:   
   >>> On 22/12/2022 01:05, Julio Di Egidio wrote:   
   >>>> On Thursday, 22 December 2022 at 01:01:08 UTC+1, Mike Terry   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>> On 21/12/2022 21:54, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> kind of most natural definition, at least to me.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That is unambiguous, but to my mind not at all what is wanted   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You just dont get it, do you? This is (comp.)programming   
   >>>> where guesswork is a *capital sin*.   
   >>>   
   >>> Programming is all about trying to guess what the customer   
   >>> actually   
   >>> wanted, rather than what they asked for! :-)   
   >>   
   >> Utter nonsense of the usual kind and an entire industry down   
   >> the drain.   
   >>   
   >> No, we are rather supposed to *elicit* requirements... which is   
   >> just the   
   >> tip of the (software) analysis iceberg.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Perhaps I should have put the smiley in a bigger font?   
      
   David, obviously it's your call, but do you really think you're   
   going to have a meaningful conversation with someone who on   
   05/01/2022 10:57 replied to you[1]:   
   "It is you who are an incompetent fucking clown just repeating   
   some bullshit you read in the blogs."   
      
   And you're by far from being the only one he abuses in thus wise.   
      
   God invented killfiles for a reason.   
      
   [1] If you want to look it up, see just over halfway down this   
   thread:   
   https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming/c/gKQ3q0D5IT0/m/7JoZ5e7ICAAJ   
      
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