"Jerry W. Lewis" wrote in message ...
Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

Programmers are responsible for learning the
languages that they use. It is a bit more problematic when one person
provides the formulas (or even the code) and another implements it, but
that is what testing is for.

Right. You've got to blame the person who was responsible for testing.


I once got burned providing an algorithm that someone else then
implemented in a flavor of Basic that evaluated strictly left to right
with no algebraic hierarchy (other than parentheses) at all. I was
irritated that someone would write a language that worked that way, but
they documented how it worked, so our ignorance of their documentation
was not their fault. Fred's consultant should have known better than to
imply that any developer could be sued for producing a package that
operated as documented.


Fred's consultant immediately blamed Microsoft in order not to be blamed himself.

Jerry