31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
9:51 a.m.
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 Documentation can be out of date or wrong or right but the implementation is wrong.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? :-)