Mark Charette wrote:
> And I'll wager a brew no one here has ever done a formal, mathematically
> rigorous proof of a validation routine except as a class project. As a
> senior member of the software QC department in a major industrial
> company, I generally find more errors and omissions in validation
> routines during code reviews and ethical hacks than anywhere else.

Ok, let's not turn this into a pissing contest. I admit I misread the
initial email and read more into it than it said. However, since this is
a mailing list with a lot of beginners on it we usually make a point to
be very clear on issues like validation and it was worth reiterating the
point that no data that comes from the user should not be trusted no
matter how hard it is for the user to change.

Your point is valid, but in the great scheme of things it's more
important to enforce the importance of validation than performance. I
felt your post was confusing so I'm sure others did too.

'Nuff pissing.

-Stut