Why less emphasis on private data?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:14 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:

> When you hear a programmer use the word "probability" -
> then its time to fire him, as in programming even the lowest 
> probability is a certainty when you are doing millions of 
> things a second.

That is total and utter nonsense and displays the most appalling
misunderstanding of probability, not to mention a shocking lack of common
sense.


-- 
Steven.