test please delete

[Gonzo]

Who is Terminator?
He's not on the Members list

Banned people do not appear on the members list.

That may or may not be the explanation.

[Diver]

Banned people do not appear on the members list.

That may or may not be the explanation.

Ah so! Or words to that effect.

Hi Gonz

[BrowneIssue]

And that's why you don't debug or test things!

It compiles - ship it.

I have worked with two programmers who actually believed that.

One was an ex-operator who could not grasp that there might be a human who cares about the output.

The other was an experienced programmer with a banking background. He had never had any exposure to the concept of testing - he did not know such a task existed. He thought that a clean compilation = working programming good enough to send out.

I've just remembered a third - a C programmer who said 'informationals and warnings don't count'. This was the bod that added 'one' or 'two' or 'four' or whatever to a bit flag to turn a bit on and added it again to turn it off. I spent an afternoon trying to explain what XOR was for but he was having none of it. The bugs he caused used to drive me mental. (E.g. every 16th press of RETURN would alternately turn the cursor off or on.)

[Gonzo]

Good morning.

I am trying to decide whether I should go to sleep, or stay up and watch the Australia v New Zealand cricket that is going to start in about an hour and a half.

[BrowneIssue]

Who is Terminator?
He's not on the Members list

Banned people do not appear on the members list.

That may or may not be the explanation.

Banned? Already?

[BrowneIssue]

Good morning.

I am trying to decide whether I should go to sleep, or stay up and watch the Australia v New Zealand cricket that is going to start in about an hour and a half.

Or help TPD get to 50,000 posts

[BrowneIssue]

I didn't get where I am by not correcting spellings!

It's hardly near her avaerage of 16 odd posts a day, though.

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Well done!

[Diver]

Me, I'm full of the flu and flu remedies that aren't doing a damned thing to ease it, so I'm off to bed to wallow in my own snotty misery.

Goodnight all

[Gonzo]

Or help TPD get to 50,000 posts

Me, I'm full of the flu and flu remedies that aren't doing a damned thing to ease it, so I'm off to bed to wallow in my own snotty misery.

Goodnight all

There is no way that we will hit 50000 tonight if Diver is going to bed.

[BrowneIssue]

I can't wait to see the reply to this one!

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Well done!