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From: jhgreve@epx.cis.umn.edu (John Greve)
Subject: Re: Is Java Type-Safe?
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In article <47566m$1tp@scotsman.ed.ac.uk>,
   eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) wrote:
>WEN1/sparker@well.com writes:
..1st part of list deleted...
>>	Never time to do it right, always time to do it over
>>	You want it bad, you get it bad
>>	Dilbertisms ...
>
>Excellent list, but what's a Dilbertism?  I have a horrible feeling
>that this is one :-)
>.... John
Nope - Dilbert is a geek (well, engineer) cartoon character created
by Scott Adams (check out http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/).
It tends to be pretty rich humor.
Adams draws much of his material from large corporations, and he has
observed that it is going to be a lonnnggg time before he exhausts
that source of material.
Sometimes the strips are painfully funny.

So, a Dilbertism would be anything that fits the stereotype
of a Dilbert strip.  For example (from the Dilbert home page),
there was a "vice president who insisted that a battery operated
product they were designing had to have a light that comes on to
let the user know when the power is off".
This is allegedly true, not a cartoon.

So Dilbertisms tend impede rather than assist software.
The home page holds a 2week gif buffer of the cartoons,
among other amusing things.



John Greve
jhgreve@epx.cis.umn.edu
