[ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

[Jeff Lightner]

What I think is interesting is how close Physics and Mathematics is
getting to Metaphysics over the years.  

Who knows - maybe science may prove the existence of God.  That will be
disconcerting for the atheists who like to deny God in favor of science.
What's even more fun is it will be disconcerting for the fundamentalists
who like to deny science in favor of God.  Maybe God does play dice
after all...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Freemyer
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

The best are physics majors.  After all the universe is just one big
computer with a lot of fuzzy logic used at all the branch points.

So says Greg the physics major.


On 5/15/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:16, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> I only scanned the link, so ...
>>>
>>> There is another possiblity - the authors were never CS trained at
all.
>>> I'd guess that many of the people writing code for the breathalyzer
were
>>> originally engineers or scientists with a dominant background in
>>> instrumentation. Coding would have been pickup activity which
started
>>> taking over their lives like kudzu. Hence sloppy code due to a lack
of
>>> background.
>>
>> This is a strong candidate.  I've seen some truly weird working code
from
>> EEs who moved into coding with just one FORTRAN class as background.
>
> I must concur.  I've seen some terrible code written by non CS folks.
> On the other hand, the worst programmer I've ever worked with
graduated
> with a BS in CS and was at the top of his class.  Two of the best I've
> ever worked with, one graduated with a Management degree, the other
> never attended college at all.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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