From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T23:26:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit testing is considered harmful

"MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:3d5457d0$0$43947$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk...

> I'm sorry, I could help it. I just find this considered harmful thing
> completely overused.

I suspect that Mikkel worded the opening line for his post this way
intentionally, but an aside:

As many readers of comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk will already know, Edsger W.
Dijkstra, author of the famous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" letter
(http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95), passed away on August 6. Here's a link
to one obituary (from the UTex CS department):

    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html

Dijkstra's contributions to the field of computer science are overwhelming;
to quote the obit: "Dijkstra enriched the language of computing with many
concepts and phrases, such as structured programming, separation of
concerns, synchronization, deadly embrace, dining philosophers, weakest
precondition, guarded command, the excluded miracle, and the famous
'semaphores' for controlling computer processes. The Oxford English
Dictionary cites his use of the words 'vector' and 'stack' in a computing
context."

Lyle