[REBOL] Re: More on expressions
From: rotenca:telvia:it at: 9-Feb-2003 12:06
Hi Sunanda,
> I know -- believe me I do -- that within 24 hours of implementing a median
> algorithm that handled numerics, I'd be on the wrong end of this phone call:
>
> "It's broken! It's not displaying the median.....Yes, I know we said they'd
> be numbers -- but not always....On a Tuesday afternoon of course the three
> things could be city names....No of course we don't want the middle one
> alphabetically in that case -- why on earth would anyone want *that*!?....We
> need the median *population* -- unless the user logged on is a member of the
> ethics committee then they'd probably want the city with the median distance
> from the North Pole -- but check with them first, that's only a
guess.....Why
> should I know if there are any other "special cases" like that? -- you wrote
> the code: it's your job to know what median means.....And we need it fixed
> within 20 minutes."
You are right! This is the real world. :-(
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Ciao
Romano
