Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:25:15 GMT
Message-ID: <fr2dd.418404$Fg5.96409@attbi_s53>

"Kenneth Downs" <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message news:3pd1lc.cjs.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...
> Alan wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > And I suppose Demetrius would follow Automaticus off of a cliff while
> > Constrainticus points out the warning sign...
>
> Nope, first Constrainticus would point out that is is an Abomination to
> quote an entire usenet posting just to add a two line reply.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's exactly what I was thinking! I guess I'm Constrainticus. Except I was baptised "Demetrius." Seriously.

By the way, I don't get the point of the parable. Are we supposed to write better software that's more like Automaticus?

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 01:25:15 CDT