<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'd also like to point out that a some (most?) of these also belonged to the "Make it up as you go along" camp. Which isn't necessarily bad, but in some (most?) of these cases, they were being made up by people who were really <i>not</i> all that experienced in the field.<div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. Do note that "lack of expertise" is not necessarily A Bad Thing...</div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Joe Armstrong wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Richard O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I wonder if other people are getting the same take-home lesson from bbcode<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that I am? It's<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - we've had adequate notations for describing syntax since<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 1960, so why, more than 50 years later, are we using notations<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> presented in an informal and incomplete way?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - we've known about the importance of testing for nearly as long,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> so why, in the 21st century, are things like Markdown and BBcode<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> promulgated without a common set of test cases?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>But tests are used to see if the implementation corresponds to the<br>specification.<br>Since they have no specification, their can't really be any tests.<br><br>Or worse, in the absence of a specification, the tests *become* the<br>specification.<br><br>Thus if the first implementation of XXX was stupid all re-implementations<br>would also have to be stupid (as is the case)<br><br>/Joe<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>