[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Fri Mar 16 04:43:09 EDT 2012


On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:57:45 -0700, John Wallace wrote:

> "You should not use a hammer to drive a screw, and you should not use a
> screwdriver to hammer a nail."

I've seen construction pros use a hammer to get a screw started. :_)
 
> People have been using hammers to drive screws and vice versa in IT for
> years, and hardly anybody ever worries about it and even fewer people
> are ever held accountable for getting things screwed up.

An adage from the building trade:

"When all else fails, use 6 inch nails."



-- 
Paul Sture



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