C Community's Cavalier Attitude On Software Reliability

[William Thomas Wolfe, 2847]

>From goudreau at larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau):
> your original complaint about
> units(1), which must have embarassed you horribly when you found out
> about floating (gasp!) currency exchange rates.

   Right.  My self-managed IRA had a total return of 44.43% last year;
   how embarassing.  Maybe I should stop watching the Nightly Business
   Report so often, huh?

> What the heck is
> dab(1) anyway?  Are you perhaps confusing manpages for a real product
> with manpages for locally programmed (and documented) extensions to
> the system?

   Ask Richard D'Ippolito -- he originally posted the list to 
   comp.lang.ada.  Unfortunately, the article has already expired
   at my site.


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe at hubcap.clemson.edu