[wplug] Quote of the Day
Vance Kochenderfer
vkochend at nyx.net
Wed Dec 7 18:50:06 EST 2005
After reading a package of apple-flavored cookies marked with an
expiration date of 29 FEB 2006:
"The computer scientist in me wants to know if the comparison to a
(currently) non-existent date should:
* always fail (Cookies are stale now),
* always succeed (Cookies will never get stale)
* throw an exception (Cookies should not exist in this universe)"
--Mike Albaugh, in Risks Digest 24.11
<http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.11.html#subj10>
Vance Kochenderfer | "Get me out of these ropes and into a
vkochend at nyx.net | good belt of Scotch" -Nick Danger
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