Re: Get Offended

Subject: Re: Get Offended
From: "Sandy Harris" <sharris -at- dkl -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:38:14 -0400

Chris Kowalchuk wrote:
>
> ... My favourite example is
> from a road sign I saw in Wales. The road ran through unfenced pasture.
> The sign said:
>
> "Sheep have no road sense."
>
> No "slow down" or "drive carefully", just a statement of fact.

From Eastern Canada: sign at the crest of a hill, just before the highway goes
down a long grade and, as it levels out, becomes the main street of a small town:

Please drive carefully. We have no hospital.

Methinks such warnings are extremely effective.

In documentation, one sometimes sees things like this (approximate) quote from
the K&R C manual:

Uninitialized local variables are guaranteed to contain garbage.

I am inclined to write such things and sometimes take flack for it from folk
who consider either the bluntness or the levity 'unprofessional'. I consider
anyone who thinks that clueless.

What do the rest of you think?




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