Re: Code Annotation of the Week

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

It was a proper error message linked to an error code. That the error 
would not appear because the machine would have melted into slag first 
was irrelevant. She would have gotten into more trouble not documenting 
the error message. As it was, she did talk first to the programmer, who 
didn't see a problem, and then to his first line supervisor, who 
like-wise didn't see a problem.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Scott

Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Seems like the writer should still have gotten in trouble for a lack
> of judgment.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:14 PM,  <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> wrote:
>> I'll see yours and raise with this error message.
>>
>> "Pish posh Romana, what could possibly go wrong?"
>>
>> The writer who was documenting the software, got in trouble for putting
>> that in the document. Until she proved that the error message was
>> actually in the software.
>>
>> Scott
>>
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