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Re: MS explains

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Thu Jan 25 11:58:32 2001

In message <[email protected]>, Randy Bush writes:
>> I'd love to see a detailed description of what went wrong, and I hope 
>> that those in the know will be allowed to post it or present it in 
>> Atlanta.
>
>was it not don knuth's turing aware lecture which consisted of a detailed
>analysys of some recent bugs in his code?
>
We all learn much more from failures than from successes.  To quote 
Alfred E. Neuman, "Learn from the mistakes of others; you'll never live 
long enough to make them all yourself."

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb