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Is there any question why software quality and testing are such a joke? I think it has to do something with the software process itself being fundamentally broken.

My two favorite examples of brokenness: unit testing and 6 Sigma Methods.

Unit testing is great, but so many companies use it as their *only* form of testing. Great, the function worked, but is the output at the end sane? Well, that is not what this tool is meant for.

6 Sigma Methods. Ok, this is my Motorola training coming out for this rant. For the un-brainwashed, sigma is supposed to be a measure of goodness. Where 0 Sigma = pure crap, and 7 sigma = 0 flaws per million. For some odd reason, 6 Sigma = 3.14 flaws per million, which is close enough to perfect. Too bad that when it comes to software, 1 flaw per anything means that your program may be totally hosed. Or more simply put Almost Perfect is a nicer way of saying Not Totally F’ed.

A cotton eve,
O, trap! Eden!
O, television sad as night.

I wonder if senile sirs tell war days,
Words selfless, drowsy…

A drawl lets rise lines fired
[No!]
With gin:
Sad as “no” is,
I’ve let one depart.
O, eve–
Not to care…

–T. S. Eliot

(by Jesse K. Rosenthal)

In fact, it actually amounts to raping binding precedence and const’s type a -> b -> a. It takes two arguments, ignores the third and interprets id of type a -> a as the first, which it subsequently preserves, discarding the second, as you said.

const id 1 2
(const id 1) 2
id 2 => 2

I guess I learned something. Thanks. Heh.