[lug] software engineering

dio2002 at indra.com dio2002 at indra.com
Mon Nov 13 16:53:36 MST 2006


>> Engineers are humans, and humans are infallible.  doesn't matter whether
>
> I guess this is an example of the point you're trying to make. :)
>
> You mean humans are fallible.

LOL.. precisely.  i guess i'm having that half-ass kind of day i talked
about... ;-)

> An example of this that we've all encountered is using the phonetic
> alphabet to read back a word that needs to be entered exactly as typed
> over
> the phone. "aBcd" = "lower case a as in alpha, upper case b as in bob,
> lower case charley, lower case d as in delta".

Maybe they can come up with one for commonly misspelled words like...
 -IN fallible! ;-)...







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