31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
10:40 a.m.
Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Anton van Straaten wrote:
Derek Elkins wrote:
Arguably, this -is- more defensible on a safety/correctness grounds than reading the documentation. Documentation can be out of date or wrong or right but the implementation is wrong. So it comes down to a matter of trust/convincing. Reading the documentation alone isn't enough from a correctness perspective - you also need to test. As Reagan liked to put it, trust but verify.
... wasn't this Lenin?
:-)
Reagan didn't invent the phrase, but he used it quite often[*], and that's where I remember it from. Lenin would presumably have said "doveryai, no proveryai", an old Russian saying. [*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_Verify