[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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