From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: becoming a better programmer Date: 20 Sep 2002 21:48:54 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3241547334351059@naggum.no> References: <3D84EDE2.1080CA8E@acm.org> <3D8A1E08.976F3E8D@enterprise.net> <3d8a6e88@news.tce.com> <3D8B5DEA.6CB67ADE@enterprise.net> <3d8b9037@news.tce.com> <86k7lg2wmm.fsf@raw.grenland.fast.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032558535 643 129.240.64.16 (20 Sep 2002 21:48:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Sep 2002 21:48:55 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:172624 comp.lang.lisp:41466 comp.lang.java.programmer:182890 comp.lang.perl.misc:119996 * Raymond Wiker | Write once, run anywhere is a proven failure in other areas. All software written to a standard specification is portable to conforming translators and execution environments. Has this been a failure more often than not? Have most American or International standards failed? I believe otherwise. What we have is a number of reasons that things have failed that are fairly unrelated to the specification. I have a hunch you were satisfied with observations that supported a simple conclusion rather than looking carefully at more reasons things failed. | Is there any reason to think that the situation will be different on mobile | equipment? Is there any reason to believe the situation will be the /same/ as the long list of failures you think are important enough to overshadow this project? And how long is that list, anyway? -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.