sympy: what's wrong with this picture?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Mar 4 00:58:55 EST 2008


Mensanator wrote:

> While we're on the subject of English, the word "worthless"
> means "has no value". So, a program that doesn't work would
> generally be "worthless". One that not only doesn't work but
> creates side effects that cause other programs to not work
> (which don't have bugs) would be "worse than worthless".

All programs have bugs, which means that in some circumstances, they 
won't work.  Therefore, by your reasoning, all programs are worse than 
useless.

> I'm not hard to please at all.

No, of course not, since logically you must think all software is useless.

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