Open Language and stability

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Oct 28 09:05:43 EDT 2015


I find the text images generated by this thread to be slightly disturbing,
but
http://memestorage.com/_nw/80/45602520.jpg

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> > So I guess what I am saying is that I really appreciate the difficulty of
> > what the LC developers have done. I think the real key was to not try and
> > create an entirely new application in the process of refactoring the
> > existing code. Most people have no idea what it takes to write a really
> > robust and functional application, never mind a development environment
> > that can produce one!
> >
> > Thank you for that. I for one am only barely comprehending how
> incomprehensible the entire task is.
>
> As for the mention of cake, I'm surprised that Richmond hasn't assumed that
> RR will be providing yellowcake and then point out that that has a half
> life. The fact that it's 4 billion years is irrelevant to him bemoaning the
> unethical behaviour of promising us cake that they already know has an end
> of life.  ;-)
>
> The assumptions, fantasies and paranoia that crop up every now and then on
> this List is... well... amusing.
>
> With each new announced version of LC that comes out I try to read the list
> of Bugs fixed. I'm always impressed. One statistic that I've never seen,
> and I think would be revealing, would be new Confirmed Bugs vs Bugs Fixed
> since the last release. I guess you'd have to be careful about how the data
> was presented - probably broken down to v7 and v8. Personally I'd expect
> more new Bugs against v8 as it's DP and I wouldn't necessarily see that as
> a bad thing, but the pessimists amongst us are likely to see it as a
> portent to RR nefariously trying to force us all to write code without
> synonyms. ;-)
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