Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:10:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> >>
> >> Which is another way of saying that you want others to have already made
> >> the mistakes for you.
> >
> > No it isn't! Ponder why most people take their car to a mechanic for
> > servicing.
>
> And you snipped:
>
> >> As long as you recognize that somebody has to make the mistakes,
> >> and don't mind watching and learning while they do, that's not necessarily
> >> a bad thing, given courtesy and quid-pro-quo, of course.
Not on purpose. I didn't see it. It wasn't near that paragraph.
> Paying a mechanic is one kind of quid-pro-quo, wouldn't you say?
Don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who pays their mechanic to
make mistakes. Au contraire in fact.
> Do I need to unpack that a bit more, talk about how testing is a
> substitute for making mistakes?
No thanks.
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